Crusades

Fort St. Elmo 1565 Part III

Crusades Ottoman Siege 26 Min Read

The threat of a general assault, following on the heels of the day’s fighting and the hard line taken by Valette, proved too much for the defenders. Despite the greater number of Muslim casualties, the exhausted Christians doubted they could take another fight like today’s and saw little point in trying. Not that they feared dying; or at least, so…

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MAHDIA CRUSADE (1390)

A Franco-Genoese crusade, sometimes known as the “Barbary Crusade,” that attacked the port of Mahdia (mod. al- Mahdiya, Tunisia) in North Africa, but was abandoned after a siege of some nine weeks. The crusade originated as a Christian response to the piratical activities of the Barbary corsairs of the North…

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The Abbasid Caliphate

The Abbasid revolt began a new age for the Umma. Many Muslims had high expectations…

Arms and Armor Crusades

The arms and armor of the Christian West, Outremer, and Byzantium had a great deal…

Christians, Muslims and Conflicts Up to the First Crusade Part IV

Indeed, medieval writers referred to crusaders and pilgrims with exactly the same word, peregrinus. As…

Christians, Muslims and Conflicts Up to the First Crusade

20 July 802, the first elephant north of the Alps mentioned in a document since…