Who are the important people to know?
What was your favorite battle?
/Crusades/
Benjamin Bennett
Aaron Wood
>Important people?
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
There.
>Favorite battle?
I don't pick 'favorites' when it comes to something as terrible as warfare. As for most interesting, I think the Battle of Jaffa captures my interest the most. Richard and Saladin duking it out so harshly that both sides agreed that enough is enough.
Brandon Carter
>I don't pick 'favorites' when it comes to something as terrible as warfare
*rolls eyes*
Bentley Bell
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Asher Hall
this
Favorite battle is the the battle of Lake Peipus
Objective ranking of Crusades
>fascinating to learn about tier
1st Crusade
3rd Crusade
4th Crusade
Spanish Reconquest (holy war against Muslims to take land? yeah it counts as a fucking crusade)
>Pretty cool i guess, a bit less well known but still interesting as hell
Northern/Livonian Crusades
Albigensian Crusade
>Boring tier, everything interesting is covered by a paragraph in a high school text book
All the other holy land crusades
all the other various crusades against other christians
Chase Williams
unironically this
Noah Bell
>Who are the important people to know?
Putin, Trump, Erdogan, El-Baghdadi, Merkel.
Dominic Evans
Isaiah Gutierrez
let me tell you about the most based crusader of all OP
>Be a holy roman emperor
>fuck everyone's on the way to the throne
>makes the papacy so butthurt he gets excommunicated
>twice
>promises to go on a crusade
>after two years of not sending troops, pope gets angry
>he goes when he is no longer expected to
>befriends the ayyubid sultan Al-Kamil through falconry
>given jerusalem and gets crowned "king of Jerusalem" for pure keks by al-kamil just to make the pope butthurt
> Achieves the restitution of Jeruseleum, Nazareth and Bethlehem through diplomacy,whilst under double secret excommunication by the Pope
>all this without a single blood being spilled
>comes back triumphantly
>years later, speaks arab and invites based Averroës to his court
Ayden Morris
the germanic has been in cahoots with the saracen for longer than I thought
Jordan Bennett
Indeed is there any depth that the eternal teuton won't steep to?
Benjamin Gray
Anyone who doesn't like the crusades
>FILTHY SARACENS!!
Isaac Myers
>I don't pick 'favorites' when it comes to something as terrible as warfare.
You're right, they're all my favorites
Jayden Collins
This to be honest family.
Bentley Barnes
>I don't pick 'favorites' when it comes to something as terrible as warfare.
I honestly want Reddit to leave
Xavier Mitchell
>I don't pick 'favorites' when it comes to something as terrible as warfare
lol i bet you are one of those who would stand by when your own ppl are geting murded becuse violence is bad mmkay
Blake Carter
>Important people
Robert the monk
Bohemnd I
Urban II
Baldwin III
Baldwin IV
Fredrick Barbarossa
Richard the Lion
Louis IX
Many others.
Michael Reyes
k3k
Aiden James
Despite all these guys mocking you, I agree with you. War is always terrible, of course.
Josiah Watson
>All the other holy land crusades
>all the other various crusades against other christians
The eighth and ninth crusade were pretty funny tbf
Chase Myers
>fascinating to learn about tier
>1st Crusade
>3rd Crusade
>4th Crusade
>Spanish Reconquest (holy war against Muslims to take land? yeah it counts as a fucking crusade)
So basically the only time that the crusaders won? lol
Chase Johnson
Montgisard, fought between Baldwin IV and Saladin, is my favourite by far. It might be a fairly typical choice, but the battle itself was insane. The dying 16 year-old leper-king of Jerusalem leads an outnumbered army against one of the greatest Arab commanders and routes them all the way back to Egypt. Pure glory. Definitely the greatest battle of the First Crusade in my opinion.
Jackson Cook
barbarossa drowning in a river is the only thing you need to know about the crusades.
>have an army 100,000 strong
>fall off your horse and drown in six inches of water
>your men pickle your corpse in a barrel of vinegar for some fucking reason
>army disbands without ever facing saladin
Noah Young
>Spanish Reconquest (holy war against Muslims to take land? yeah it counts as a fucking crusade)
It doesn't because in the middle of that """reconquest""" were Spic Christians murdering each other.
More like something named in hindsight.
Nolan Morales
Absolutely based.
Also why were the Muslim's never in a outnumbered in their wars against Christian's?
All the wars against Christian states are just them throwing hordes everywhere until somebody falls lmao.
Is it just something about Islam that makes inherently them bad at war?
Luis Reed
Because of the nature of eastern armies
Mass conscripts vs heavy cav/infantry
Adrian Flores
More like the nature of sources exaggerating and ignoring numbers at will.
Isaac Adams
Nah more like what the poster above you said.
Hudson Perry
The Turk's mass conscripted. Arab's and Persians used their head.