The Great Crusades

by Joel André

"Who could enumerate this formidable army of Christ? No one, I think, had ever seen or could ever see a like number of such brilliant knights."
 
 
---Anonymi Gesta Francorum (1101)
 
 
 
After a fast Seljuk expansion in Asia Minor, the Byzantine emperor Alexis cries for military help from the west. On a church meeting the 27 of August 1095, Pope Urban II exhorts the Christian kings to help the Byzantines and retake the holy land from the heathens. The West prepares for war, to stop the muslims and free the Holy Land in the name of God!