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Siege of Nicaea
Jun 1097 — the crusaders’ first success. The Seljuk capital surrenders — to the Byzantine emperor, by secret arrangement, cheating the Franks of plunder and sowing the first distrust between allies.
This is one scene of Chapter 2 — The First Crusade in The Crusades, 1095–1291.
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