The crusade would be launched the following year and saw a brutal military victory in the city of Jerusalem in July of 1099. ... The more immediate causes of the First Crusade were in the east, ...

Siboletto of Zimbabwe is in France now with a look at how the first Crusade began. - Back in 1095, Pope Urban II came to this cathedral at Clermont, France for a counsel on church reform.

What happened between the first two days of Billy Graham’s Copenhagen crusade and the closing night could only be called a miracle. Graham himself described the crusade as “one of the most ...

They won a shocking victory – but it didn't last. ... Nearly a thousand years ago, European Christians embarked on what became known as the First Crusade: an unprecedented, ...

Exactly 920 years after Jerusalem fell to the Crusaders, archaeologists say they've found the first on-the-ground evidence to back up a key twist in the account of their victory.

Ironically, it was the brutality of the crusading expeditions that unified Islam. Jerusalem was taken by Christian forces at the end of the First Crusade in 1099, but Western control of the city was ...

The Crusades of course, have a topical relevance since the events of September 11 2001. In their own ways and for their own ends, both President George W Bush and Osama Bin Laden have invoked the ...

THE FIRST CRUSADE: A New History Thomas S. Asbridge, . . Oxford Univ., $35 (408pp) ISBN 978-0-19-517823-4 ...

The First Crusade. to the 4 April 2002 ... He goes further: a victory for Islam might well have encouraged the Seljuk Turks to invade Europe with greater success than they achieved in later centuries.