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>>2816476
>Important people?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_principal_leaders_of_the_Crusades

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim_military_leaders

There.

>Favorite battle?

I don't pick 'favorites' when it comes to something as terrible as warfare. As for most interesting, I think the Battle of Jaffa captures my interest the most. Richard and Saladin duking it out so harshly that both sides agreed that enough is enough.

>>2817207
>I don't pick 'favorites' when it comes to something as terrible as warfare
*rolls eyes*

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>>2817228

>>2817228
this
>>2816476
Favorite battle is the the battle of Lake Peipus

Objective ranking of Crusades
>fascinating to learn about tier
1st Crusade
3rd Crusade
4th Crusade
Spanish Reconquest (holy war against Muslims to take land? yeah it counts as a fucking crusade)
>Pretty cool i guess, a bit less well known but still interesting as hell
Northern/Livonian Crusades
Albigensian Crusade
>Boring tier, everything interesting is covered by a paragraph in a high school text book
All the other holy land crusades
all the other various crusades against other christians

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>>2817228
unironically this

>Who are the important people to know?
Putin, Trump, Erdogan, El-Baghdadi, Merkel.

>>2818199
reddit

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let me tell you about the most based crusader of all OP

>Be a holy roman emperor
>fuck everyone's on the way to the throne
>makes the papacy so butthurt he gets excommunicated
>twice
>promises to go on a crusade
>after two years of not sending troops, pope gets angry
>he goes when he is no longer expected to
>befriends the ayyubid sultan Al-Kamil through falconry
>given jerusalem and gets crowned "king of Jerusalem" for pure keks by al-kamil just to make the pope butthurt
> Achieves the restitution of Jeruseleum, Nazareth and Bethlehem through diplomacy,whilst under double secret excommunication by the Pope
>all this without a single blood being spilled
>comes back triumphantly
>years later, speaks arab and invites based Averroës to his court

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Crusade

>>2818226
the germanic has been in cahoots with the saracen for longer than I thought

>>2818315

Indeed is there any depth that the eternal teuton won't steep to?

Anyone who doesn't like the crusades
>FILTHY SARACENS!!

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>>2817207
>I don't pick 'favorites' when it comes to something as terrible as warfare.
You're right, they're all my favorites

>>2817228
This to be honest family.

>>2817207
>I don't pick 'favorites' when it comes to something as terrible as warfare.

I honestly want Reddit to leave

>>2817207
>I don't pick 'favorites' when it comes to something as terrible as warfare
lol i bet you are one of those who would stand by when your own ppl are geting murded becuse violence is bad mmkay

>>2816476
>Important people

Robert the monk
Bohemnd I
Urban II
Baldwin III
Baldwin IV
Fredrick Barbarossa
Richard the Lion
Louis IX

Many others.

>>2818809
k3k

>>2817207
Despite all these guys mocking you, I agree with you. War is always terrible, of course.

>>2818131
>All the other holy land crusades
>all the other various crusades against other christians
The eighth and ninth crusade were pretty funny tbf

>>2818131
>fascinating to learn about tier
>1st Crusade
>3rd Crusade
>4th Crusade
>Spanish Reconquest (holy war against Muslims to take land? yeah it counts as a fucking crusade)
So basically the only time that the crusaders won? lol

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>>2816476
Montgisard, fought between Baldwin IV and Saladin, is my favourite by far. It might be a fairly typical choice, but the battle itself was insane. The dying 16 year-old leper-king of Jerusalem leads an outnumbered army against one of the greatest Arab commanders and routes them all the way back to Egypt. Pure glory. Definitely the greatest battle of the First Crusade in my opinion.

>>2816476
barbarossa drowning in a river is the only thing you need to know about the crusades.

>have an army 100,000 strong
>fall off your horse and drown in six inches of water
>your men pickle your corpse in a barrel of vinegar for some fucking reason
>army disbands without ever facing saladin

>>2818131
>Spanish Reconquest (holy war against Muslims to take land? yeah it counts as a fucking crusade)
It doesn't because in the middle of that """reconquest""" were Spic Christians murdering each other.

More like something named in hindsight.

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>>2819462
Absolutely based.

Also why were the Muslim's never in a outnumbered in their wars against Christian's?

All the wars against Christian states are just them throwing hordes everywhere until somebody falls lmao.
Is it just something about Islam that makes inherently them bad at war?

>>2819610
Because of the nature of eastern armies
Mass conscripts vs heavy cav/infantry

>>2819626
More like the nature of sources exaggerating and ignoring numbers at will.

>>2819670
Nah more like what the poster above you said.

>>2820024
The Turk's mass conscripted. Arab's and Persians used their head.