crusaders

Even before the sack of Constantinople in 1204, the Fourth Crusade already wrecked havoc at Zara in 1202. Upon Venetian request, the Crusaders attacked and besieged Zara, which was a notable trade rival of Venice in the Adriatic. IOTL the city was caught offguard by the sudden arrival and...

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A few months ago, i made a thread on a hypothetical victory for Saladin against the Third Crusade's forces at the Battle of Arsuf in 1191. I wanted to bump it, but, because of the red warning, i ultimately decided not to. I originally thought Saladin would support the Seljuks of Rum due to...

What if the Crusader forces under Bohemond, Prince of Antioch, and Baldwin II, Count of Edessa (and future King of Jerusalem) had managed to not get caught in a trap and slaughtered by the Seljuks of Mosul at the Battle of Harran, in 1104 AD? If Bohemond avoids disaster and humiliation, where...

The Battle of Arsuf (1191 AD) was, arguably, the pivotal battle of the Third Crusade, which was launched in an attempt to halt the Ayyubid sultan Saladin's attempt at conquering the Crusader states. The Crusaders, under the leadership of Angevin English king Richard, the Lionheart, managed to...

What if one minor French priest leading a part of the First Crusade's army had not "found" the Holy Lance during the Siege of Antioch, preventing high morale from being breathed back into the Crusader army? Basically, what if the Seljuks had successfully repulsed the attack on Antioch in 1098...

Inspired on this video, I hope you like it. What if Godfrey was killed on the last stage of the battle of ascalon, and thus the crusaders had captured the city after the siege? Ascalon was used on the following centuries as a base to attack the kingdom of Jerusalem, so what could change if it...

In my last thread (you can check it here) someone said that the Franks claiming to be the sucessors of the Roman empire would be like if the Hungarians had expanded into Greece and taken Constantinople and declares themselves a new roman empire Let's say that for some reason....Maybe they...