The Blunder That Ruined the First Crusade: Ascalon 1099

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📢 Narrated by David McCallion

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Kevin MacLeod

Images used:
Gustave Doré - Priests Exhorting the Crusaders https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_Dor%C3%A9_-_Priests_Exhorting_the_Crusaders.jpg
Gustave Doré - Godfrey enters Jerusalem https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_Dor%C3%A9_-_Godfrey_Enters_Jerusalem.jpg
Francesco Hayez - Pope Urban II on the Place de Clermont preaching the First Crusade https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fileape_Urbain_II_sur_la_place_de_Clermont_pr%C3%AAchant_la_Premi%C3%A8re_Croisade_-_Francesco_Hayez.jpg
Gustave Doré - Enthusiasm of Crusaders at the First View of Jerusalem https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enthusiasm_of_Crusaders_at_the_First_View_of_Jerusalem.jpg
Émile Signol - Taking of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, 15th July 1099 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taking_of_Jerusalem_by_the_Crusaders,_15th_July_1099.jpg
Gustave Doré - The Crusaders war machinery https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_dore_crusades_the_crusaders_war_machinery.jpg
Gustave Doré - Crusade against the Moors of Granada https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_dore_crusades_crusade_against_the_moors_of_granada.jpg

📖 Sources and Citations:
Raymond of Aguilers – History of the Franks who Captured Jerusalem
Thomas Asbridge - The First Crusade: A New History
Paul M. Cobb – The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades
Susan B. Edgington (translator) - Albert of Aachen's History of the Journey to Jerusalem
Carole Hillenbrand – The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
Conor Kostick – The Siege of Jerusalem: Crusade and Conquest in 1099
David Nicolle – The First Crusade 1096–99: Conquest of the Holy Land
Jay Rubenstein – Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse

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