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.

As it happened, the First Crusade was amazingly ... Shouldn’t they celebrate the crusades as a great victory? Until the nineteenth century that is precisely what they did.

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

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 ...

When Pope Urban II called for the First Crusade in a speech before a French crowd at Clermont ... many of Jerusalem’s priceless antiquities were lost in the chaos that followed victory.) What is ...

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 ...

Any hope of victory has disappeared in the past few ... 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 ...