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MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · July 15

THE DAY IN HISTORY · JULY 15

July 15 in history

1099 — 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.

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