On June 7, 1099, after a brutal journey across Europe and the Levant, the weary but determined Crusader army arrived outside the walls of Jerusalem. Their arrival marked the beginning of one of the defining and bloodiest chapters of the First Crusade. The Crusaders,…
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When Sultan Mehmed II encamped outside the Theodosian Walls on April 6, 1453, beginning what would become the final siege of Constantinople, few could have anticipated that the confrontation would not merely end a millennium of Byzantine rule, but also inaugurate a new political…
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