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To: SeekAndFind

From my reading of history, wasn’t the LAST CRUSADE the Spanish attack on England in 1588? The Spanish tried again a few years later and again failed to conquer England.


47 posted on 08/16/2013 3:28:07 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
The last crusade in my opinion was when Austria-Hungary captured Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878 for all the same reasons the crusaders did.

It was generally called the "Great Eastern Crisis" part of which was the Herzegovina Uprising of 1877. In which 200,000 christian were fugitives as a result the Ottoman Empires Jizya tax increases. Christians were still considered to be Dhimmi or second class citizens under Islamic rule. This spread into the Serbo-Turkish War.

It was only logical for the Austria-Hungary to stop the war at the boarders.

After Austria took over the area this caused issues with Serbia you know the rest of the story.

54 posted on 08/16/2013 5:25:54 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
said, " wasn’t the LAST CRUSADE the Spanish attack on England in 1588?"

I understand your point but it is similar to Serbia attacking Austria when their real that was Islam. Philip II was an idiot

55 posted on 08/16/2013 6:21:13 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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