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Showing posts with label Third Crusade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Third Crusade. Show all posts
Friday, July 10, 2020

The Third Crusade: an Early Mishap at Lyon, 10 July 1190

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by Charlene Newcomb King Richard I When Richard became King of England in 1189 the pilgrimage to the Holy Land to free Jerusalem beca...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Richard the Lionheart's Ordeal, October - December 1192

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by Charlene Newcomb A few days before Christmas 1192, Richard the Lionheart, King of England 1189-1199, surrendered to Duke Leopold of ...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

The Bloodiest Day of the Third Crusade – Richard I and Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf

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by Charlene Newcomb Richard I of England King Richard I and his allies successfully secured the city of Acre in July 1191, and the se...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

War Crime or a Strategic Military Decision? The massacre at Acre, August 20, 1191

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by Charlene Newcomb Surely one of the saddest, most horrible, and notorious events of the Third Crusade occurred on August 20, 1191. ...
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Friday, April 15, 2016

Richard the Lionheart's Noble Adversary - Saladin

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By  Helena Schrader Richard the Lionheart was a man of war, and he had many adversaries in his lifetime. He fought his father more...
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Thursday, October 15, 2015

Richard the Lionheart and the Women of Jerusalem

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by Helena P. Schrader Richard's Tomb at Fontevrault There has been a lot of speculation about Richard the Lionheart’s sexuality ov...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

England’s First Fleet

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by Helena P. Schrader For much of Britain’s history, certainly since the defeat of the Spanish Armada in the reign of Elizabeth I through ...
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Friday, November 14, 2014

Richard the Lionheart’s Peacemaker

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by Helena P. Schrader Richard the Lionheart's Tomb at Fontevrault, France In an earlier entry, I wrote about Richard the Lionheart’s ...