and summoned the First Crusade to fight the forces of Islam in the east. The crusade would be launched the following year and saw a brutal military victory in the city of Jerusalem in July of 1099.

Asbridge, a British authority on the Crusades, brilliantly re-creates the three-year history of the First Crusade ... fighters and concluded that victory was ordained for the survivors in the ...

JERUSALEM — Exactly 920 years after Jerusalem fell in the First Crusade, archaeologists say ... key twist in the Crusaders’ account of their victory. A glittering piece of Fatimid Muslim ...

This was seen as a Christian victory and, after Poitiers ... who wrote a chronicle of the First Crusade. Thousands answered the pope’s call and the First Crusade conquered Jerusalem in 1099.

AMMAN — One of the first major campaigns of the First Crusade was the siege of Antioch in spring of 1098. The actual siege began in October 1097 and local Muslims leaders, led by Yaghi Siyan sent ...