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A Plan to regain the Holy Land from the Master of the Hospitallers (c.1305)

by DRM_peter Posted on February 4, 2014

Following the expulsion of the Crusaders from their last outpost of Acre in 1291, several attempts and plans were made to bring back Christian rule to Jerusalem and the Holy Land. In the following memorandum, Fulk of Villaret, master of the Hospitallers, proposes this invasion plan. Continue reading →

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The Siege of Ascalon (1153) According to Contemporary or Near-contemporary Western European Sources

by Scott Manning Posted on March 4, 2013

Translated by Helen Nicholson from the editions in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica Scriptores, ed.Bill Zajac. In 1153, Baldwin launched a major attack on Ascalon, with an army large enough to invest the great city completely. The siege dragged on for months, with … Continue reading →

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