Crusader mass grave in Lebanon sheds light on cruelty of medieval warfare

JPost ^ | 9/23/21 | Rossella Tercatin

[Roman_War_Criminal]

A mass grave uncovered in Sidon, Lebanon, has shed new light on the Crusades and on the cruelty of medieval warfare, a new study in the academic journal PLOS ONE has shown.

Archaeologists unearthed a large quantity of human bones in the moat of the Saint Louis Castle in South Lebanon.

The area was first conquered by the Crusaders after the First Crusade in 1110. Some 150 years later, the Christian city was attacked and largely destroyed by the Mamluks in 1253 and then destroyed even more by the Mongols in 1260.

Pursuing the idea of liberating the holy sites from Muslim rule and encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church, European powers and sometimes peoples initiated several military campaigns in the Middle East during those centuries, which led to the establishment of a number of Christian states in the area of modern Israel, Lebanon and Syria, and for a certain period managed to place Jerusalem under Christian rule, following massacres against Jews, both in Europe and in the Middle East. While widely chronicled in historical documents, very few archaeological remains have been found documenting the battles.

[lightman]

The Spaniards could not take an overland route to reach the spice lands. Going around the horn of Africa was slow and dangerous, so...

[DoughtyOne]

True enough...

[Fiji Hill]

The crusaders, among whom was the English prince Edward Longshanks, landed at Carthage 17 July 1270, but disease broke out in the camp. Many died of dysentery, and on 25 August, Louis himself died.

St. Louis Cathedral, Carthage--named for King Louis IX
This is no longer a house of worship but is used as an auditorium.

[Berlin_Freeper]

What is Dysentery?

[FreedomPoster]

https://www.politicalislam.com/

Bill Warner’s site. Worthwhile.

[Pontiac]

Here it is presented that they were only there to protect Christians in the region. The fact is, they were taking the battle to the region because of extreme Islamic adventurism.

Islamic adventurism is not really a thing of the past either. It is a integral part of the religion.

The Turkish invasion of Cyprus

[Deaf Smith]

Throwing bodies into a most isn't really a mass grave.

A moat is a line of defense. Making it putrid and toxic adds to the defensabilaty of the castle.

[Tennessee Nana]

PING

[Main Street]

The Lombards in the First Crusade



Lombardi Motto: 'Impavidum Ferient Ruinae.' Trans: "The ruin will strike him unafraid"

"Horace opens one of his odes with a depiction of a Stoic hero who will submit to the ruin of the universe around him: "Si fractus illabatur orbis, impavidum ferient ruinae" — "Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world." (Odes 3.3.7-8)

"Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (Venusia, December 8, 65 BC – Rome, November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus."

[jpsb]

For the first time since the Battle of Tours in 732 AD, the battle in which Charles Martel (literally Charles the Hammer) stopped the Muslim expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate into Europe and the Emirates of Sicily, Islam had not expanded into Europe until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 by the hands of the Ottomans. The Ottoman Caliphate continued its expansion after that for two hundred more years and would reach further into Europe than any other Muslim Empire had done previously. But in 1683 that would all come to a halt and mark the end of the Ottoman Expansion into Europe. This momentous occasion would be the Battle of Vienna.

[Gene Eric]

>> The Islamicists attacked Europe over 500 times, and the Crusaders attacked somewhere around 12-20 times

And I believe the Islamists murdered at least 270 million.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Sidon was founded by the Phoenicians and has been conquered many times. That whole area is a mass grave.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree, and it’s not looking to co-dwell with any other
belief system.

[DoughtyOne]

i honestly have no idea. I don’t recall seeing and estimate
on that.

[PIF]

Bill Warner videos :
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bill+warner+islam

Bill Warner : Why We Are Afraid, A 1400 Year Secret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUd9ct7kD-g

Dr. Bill Warner : How Did Islam Destroy The Classical World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AhLlYNGxFE

[Roman_War_Criminal]

100% but I will say maybe N Africa was Christian for 500 years before the muzzies came in. Starting with Egypt.

It’s Jpost so take it with a grain of salt and note it’s more MSM trying to black brush Christianity as evil.

[Coffee... Black... No Sugar]

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[PIF]

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[SunkenCiv]

Mass Grave of Slaughtered Crusaders Discovered in Lebanon [09/20/2021]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the ping!

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3997895/posts?page=39#39