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Crusader mass grave in Lebanon sheds light on cruelty of medieval warfare
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| 9/23/21
| Rossella Tercatin
Posted on 09/24/2021 5:25:11 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Tennessee Nana
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09/25/2021 8:27:25 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
evil white people against peace loving muslims
To: jpsb
Actually the Turks began expanding into Europe in the 1350s...the battle of Kosovo was in 1389. Constantinople managed to hold out until 1453 because of its excellent defenses but a good portion of southeastern Europe was under Ottoman control by then.
As the article points out, there were cases when Jews were massacred by Crusaders, but Pope Urban II's objective when he called for the first Crusade was to free Jerusalem from the Muslim Turks, and I doubt any Catholic bishops encouraged the Crusaders to kill Jews...that was done by ignorant rank-and-file Crusaders.
To: PIF
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