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2. Siege of Jerusalem (1099) - Wikipedia

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   To make the situation worse for the Crusaders, al-Dawla poisoned all the water wells in the surrounding area, and cut down all trees outside Jerusalem. On June 7, 1099, the Crusaders reached the outer fortifications of Jerusalem, which had been recaptured from the Seljuk Turks by the Egyptian Fatimids only the year before. The city was guarded ...

3. History of Jerusalem during the Kingdom of Jerusalem

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   Four main Crusader armies left Europe in August 1096. On June 7, 1099, the crusaders arrived at Jerusalem. The city was besieged by the army beginning on July 13. Attacks on the city walls started on July 14, with a huge battering ram and two siege towers. On July 15 by noon the Crusaders were on the northern wall and the Muslim defenses ...

4. Tancred, Prince of Galilee - Wikipedia

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   Tancred appears as a character in Torquato Tasso's 16th-century poem Jerusalem Delivered, in which he is portrayed as an epic hero and given a fictional love interest, the pagan warrior-maiden Clorinda. This poem was the inspiration of the film, The Mighty Crusaders, about the Siege of Jerusalem in

5. Chronology of the Crusades, 1095–1187 - Wikipedia

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   11 December. The Crusaders are successful in their Siege of Ma'arrat Nu'man begun on 27 November. [q] [146] Taking of Jerusalem by the Crusaders (1847) by Émile Signol. 1099. 13 May. Tancred is unsuccessful in his Siege of Arqa. [147] 7 June – 15 July. The Crusaders capture the Holy City after the Siege of Jerusalem. [148] 22 July.

6. Crusades - Wikipedia

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   The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land between 1095 and 1291 that had the objective of reconquering Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Muslim rule after the region had been conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate ...

7. Crusader states - Wikipedia

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   The description "Crusader states" can be misleading, as from 1130 onwards, very few people among the Franks were Crusaders. Medieval and modern writers use the term "Outremer" as a synonym, derived from the French word for overseas. By 1098, the Crusaders' armed pilgrimage to Jerusalem was passing through the Syria region.

8. Timeline of the Kingdom of Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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   1099. May 19. The crusaders cross the Dog River into Palestine. [47] June 3. The crusaders seize the city of Ramla and establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lydda and Ramla. The first bishop, Robert, fixes the tributes payable on his estates to attract Syrian and Frank colonists to settle there. His grant will be the template for privileges ...

9. 1099 - Wikipedia

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   The next day the Crusaders enter the deserted town of Rafaniyah, that provides them with much-needed supplies. Raymond moves into the Buqaia Valley, and takes the strategic Kurdish fortress of Hosn al-Akrad (the future Krak des Chevaliers castle). [2] February – The Crusaders under Godfrey of Bouillon set out from Antioch to Latakia.