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Turning point · The Crusades, 1095–1291
The Saleph

10 Jun 1190 — Frederick Barbarossa, the mightiest king of the age, drowns crossing a river in Cilicia. His great German army dissolves in grief and disease before it reaches the Holy Land.
This is one scene of Chapter 7 — The Third Crusade in The Crusades, 1095–1291.
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