The First Crusade, 1096-99 : conquest of the Holy Land
2003
Book
"In 1095 the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I appealed to the Christian states of western Europe for help against the Turks who had swept across the Empire after the disastrous Byzantine defeat at Manzikert in 1071. This book is about the First Crusade (1096-1099) that followed, and saw several armies of 'armed pilgrims' march across Europe to the Holy Land. They were unleashed on a divided and fragmented Islamic world and won a series of apparently miraculous victories, capturing the Holy City of Jerusalem itself. The success of the First Crusade was never to be repeated, however, and triggered two centuries of bitter warfare, the repercussions of which are still felt today." -- Amazon
Item Details
ISBN: 9781841765150
Description: 96 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 94) and index.
Contents:
- Origins of the campaign
- Chronology
- Opposing commanders: Crusader leaders, Byzantine leaders, Muslim leaders
- Opposing forces: the Crusaders, the Byzantines, the Armenians, the Turks, the Fatimids
- Opposing plans: the Crusader plans, Byzantine plans, Saljuq plans, Fatimid plans
- The campaign: the ambush; at Dorylaeum, the Crusade divides, the siege of Antioch, the march on Jerusalem, the siege of Jerusalem, the battle of Ascalon
- The aftermath
- The battlefields today
LCCN: 2004478823
Control Number: 3271918
Publisher: Oxford : Osprey, 2003.