The First Crusade began in 1095 with an appeal from the Byzantine Empire and a sermon by Pope Urban II that ignited one of ...

Google Earth traces the First Crusade from Europe toward Jerusalem, revealing just how long and dangerous the journey really was. As the route passes through Constantinople, Anatolia, Antioch, and ...

“Deus vult!” — God wills it! — was the battle cry of the First Crusade, in which armies of Europe, at the very end of the 11th century, marched off to liberate the holy city of Jerusalem and conquer ...

Stained glass window in Brussels cathedral depicting First Crusade commander Godfrey of Bouillon. Shutterstock Ask pretty much anyone – whether terrorists, politicians (of all camps), dinner party ...

AMMAN — One of the first major campaigns of the First Crusade was the siege of Antioch in spring of 1098. The actual siege began in October 1097 and local Muslims leaders, led by Yaghi Siyan sent ...

In 1095, Pope Urban II preached a fiery sermon that changed the course of Western history: he urged Christian warriors to take up the sword and defend their brothers in the East who had been defeated ...

Is there a historical episode less understood by the general public and more urgently in need of clarification than the Crusades? To some on the right, the Crusades prefigured the modern wars that ...

It was at a speech made outside Clermont Ferrand that Pope Urban II called for a Crusade to claim the holy city of Jerusalem for Christianity, and wrest it from Islamic control. This was the start of ...