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The sack of Constantinople
12–13 Apr 1204 — a crusade against Islam storms and pillages the greatest Christian city on earth. Relics and the bronze horses of San Marco are carried to Venice; Byzantium is fatally maimed. A site of memory.
This is one scene of Chapter 8 — The Fourth Crusade — The Wrong Ending in The Crusades, 1095–1291.
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