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Site of memory · The Crusades, 1095–1291
The storm of Jerusalem
15 Jul 1099 — the city is taken and its Muslim and Jewish inhabitants slaughtered. The chroniclers’ boast of blood “to the horses’ bridles” is exaggeration, but a massacre it was. A site of memory, not triumph.
This is one scene of Chapter 2 — The First Crusade in The Crusades, 1095–1291.
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