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To: C19fan
Words fail, THIS IS COLLEGE??? NO, it is a kindergarten tantrum session!!!

This is a Crusader image [1096]...

(Oh, I get it, they both have 'plumes' on helmets, silly me!)

4 posted on 07/16/2020 8:51:44 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: SES1066

Nope. Neither image shows what a Crusader looked like. The first is obviously a Roman, as was pointed out already. With the latter one, full plate armor was only common around 1400-1550. By then the Crusades were over, unless you count the final war against the Moors in Spain (1481-1492), and the “Baltic Crusade” led by Germans of the Teutonic Order, against the pagan/Catholic Lithuanians and Orthodox Russians.

For the Crusaders you are probably thinking of (those going to the Middle East in the 11th-13th centuries), the armor usually worn was chain mail, topped by a steel cap with a nose guard. And there definitely has to be a cross on the outfit somewhere!


14 posted on 07/17/2020 7:24:00 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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