Could the Crusades have been won?
Could the Crusades have been won? Dr Steve Tibble and Tony McMahon investigate how this religious war could have gone the other way.

Could the Crusades have been won? Dr Steve Tibble and Tony McMahon investigate how this religious war could have gone the other way.
During the Crusades, the holy city of Jerusalem was held for just under a century by Christian forces. It was taken at the start of the First Crusade in 1099 and then lost to the Muslim Saracens in 1187. One contemporary English chronicler, Roger of Hoveden (or Howden) described what happened. How was it that the crusaders lost control of Jerusalem?
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