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The Children's Crusade was a failed popular crusade by European Christians to establish a second Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Holy Land in the early 13th century. Some sources have narrowed the date to 1212. Although it is called the Children's Crusade, it never received the papal approval from Pope Innocent III to be an actual
The Children's Crusade was a failed Popular Crusade by the West to regain the Holy Land. The traditional narrative includes some factual and some mythical events including visions by a French boy and a German boy, an intention to peacefully convert Muslims to Christianity, bands of children marching to Italy, and children being sold into slavery.
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The Children's Crusade, by Gustave Doré, 1877. 1211. April. Simon de Montfort lays siege to Lavaur, destroying the city and its inhabitants. [68] 17 June. The Nicean forces of Theodore I Laskaris defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Antioch on the Meander. Kaykhusraw I, was killed on the field of battle and Alexios III Angelos was taken ...
The Children's Crusade, or Children's March, was a march by over 1,000 school students in Birmingham, Alabama on May 2–10, 1963. Initiated and organized by Rev. James Bevel, the purpose of the march was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city. Many children left their schools and were arrested, set free, and then ...
Dickson's work interprets the "Children's Crusade" as a form of social critique driven by a desire to return to apostolic simplicity and dissatisfaction with societal leaders. Additionally, his examination of the early 19th-century historiography of the crusades highlights a tendency to view them through a lens of materialism and romanticism.
"The Children's Crusade" (comics), a 1993–1994 story arc in DC Comics' Vertigo imprint; Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, a 1969 novel by Kurt Vonnegut; Avengers: The Children's Crusade, a 2010 storyline in Marvel Comics' Young Avengers; The Children's Crusade, a short story in Michael Cunningham's ...
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