The mood turned from joy to horror, when a white truck barreled through a pedestrian-filled closed street. In the end, 86 were dead, including Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress and prison that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. This dramatic action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution, a decade of political turmoil and Henry Aaron was born February 5, , in Mobile, Alabama.
The third of eight children, Aaron was a star football player, third baseman On July 14, , Gerald R. Ford is born Leslie Lynch King, Jr. His biological father left the family when Ford was three years old. The young Ford went on to become the Romanticized in both life and death, John Ringo was supposedly a Shakespeare-quoting gentleman whose wit was as quick as his gun. An additional goal soon became the principal objective—the Christian reconquest of the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land and the freeing of the Eastern Christians from Muslim rule.
During the crusade, knights, peasants, and serfs from many regions of Western Europe travelled over land and by sea, first to Constantinople and then on toward Jerusalem. The peasant population had been afflicted by drought, famine, and disease for many years before , and some of them seem to have envisioned the crusade as an escape from these hardships.
Spurring them on had been a number of meteorological occurrences beginning in that seemed to be a divine blessing for the movement—a meteor shower, an aurorae, a lunar eclipse, and a comet, among other events. An outbreak of ergotism had also occurred just before the Council of Clermont. Millenarianism, the belief that the end of the world was imminent, widespread in the early 11th century, experienced a resurgence in popularity. The response was beyond expectations; while Urban might have expected a few thousand knights, he ended up with a migration numbering up to 40, Crusaders of mostly unskilled fighters, including women and children.
This unruly mob began to attack and pillage outside Constantinople in search of supplies and food, prompting Alexios to hurriedly ferry the gathering across the Bosporus one week later. After crossing into Asia Minor, the crusaders split up and began to plunder the countryside, wandering into Seljuq territory around Nicaea, where they were massacred by an overwhelming group of Turks.
The four main Crusader armies left Europe around the appointed time in August They took different paths to Constantinople and gathered outside the city walls between November and April ; Hugh of Vermandois arrived first, followed by Godfrey, Raymond, and Bohemond. This time, Emperor Alexios was more prepared for the Crusaders; there were fewer incidents of violence along the way.
The Crusaders may have expected Alexios to become their leader, but he had no interest in joining them, and was mainly concerned with transporting them into Asia Minor as quickly as possible.
In return for food and supplies, Alexios requested that the leaders to swear fealty to him and promise to return to the Byzantine Empire any land recovered from the Turks. Before ensuring that the various armies were shuttled across the Bosporus, Alexios advised the leaders on how best to deal with the Seljuq armies they would soon encounter.
An army of young people set off on Crusade. Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Crusades. All failed. Battle of Nicopolis sometimes called the 'last' Crusade. An army of French and Hungarian knights were massacred.
It is sufficient to relate that in the Temple of Solomon… crusaders rode in blood to the knees and bridles of their horses. With these astonishing words, a contemporary chronicler recounted the culminating moments of the First Crusade in Jerusalem on 15 July The chronicler, a member of the southern French contingent on the expedition, was present in the Holy City.
The plan for the crusade was simple: march to the Holy City and wrest it from Muslim control back into Christian hands. While maybe around 70, initially set out, over the course of nearly three years of campaigning many had abandoned the expedition and many more had died in battle, from hunger, or from exposure to the extreme conditions endured on the march.
It was therefore a vastly reduced — though battle-hardened — crusader force that finally reached its long-desired goal on 7 June On the way they had captured the key cities of Nicaea and Antioch and defeated several Muslim armies in battle.
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