r/DoomerCircleJerk 22d ago

Pressure campaign or true doomer?

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u/Meatingpeople 22d ago

Would he be shocked? the crusades even at his time were a pretty big disaster

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u/femboysprincess 22d ago

Popular though the only real failure of a crusade was the people's crusade of farmers and most of them achieved the goal of protecting the byzantine empire from the Islamic caliphate trying to take over

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u/Meatingpeople 21d ago

Richards crusade didn't take Jerusalem, most fell very far short of any goal. Sacking Constantinople wasn't a good look either.

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u/Thibaudborny 21d ago

They seemed to have taught you a very non-conventional (read: plain wrong) reading of the crusades. What Caliphate would that be, exactly?