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CUdren's Cmsade - A disastrous consisting of approximately 40,000
expedition undertaken by thousands Knights. men at arms and archers,
of French and German children in attacked and were defeated by an
an effort to rescue the Holy Land. English force consisting of 13,000 of
The crusade was preached by whom about 3,000 wexe Knights
Stephen a 12-year-old boy who and men-at-arms and the remainder
promis4 his followers that the seas archers.
would dry up before them, as they
The success of the battle was due
had done before the Israelites. By to the rigid discipline exercised by
the end of 1212 approximately the English army as compared with
30,000 children of the age of 12 or the complete indiscipline of thc
less had gathered at Vêndome and French.
accompanied by a few Priests they
slarted their southerly trek with Crnsad& - The name given to the
Stephen their leader riding in a cart military expeditions carried out by
covered by a canopy to shelter him the Christian countries for the
£rom the blazing sunshine.
recovery of the Holy Land from ti~e
Before long, due to shortage of
Saracens.
water and food, many had dropped
Then rhere were a number of
out. At Marseilles the remainder small and insignificant expeditions
were disappointed to find that the eight of which are generally distin-
seas remained stubbornly impass- guished by the name Crusade. The
able. However, two merchants hired Grst, from 1096-1100, was the only
a total of 7 ships to take the children expedition which could be temed
to the Holy Land. After they had successful and which resulted in the
sailed nothing more was heard of
them for a period of 20 years when that led by St. Louis, King of
the news gradually leaked out that France 1270-72. The most impor-
rwo of the ships had been wrecked tant from the English point of view
off Sardinia and the remaining 5 was the third crusade led by
captured by a Saracen squadron Richard 1.
and the chiIdren soId to slavery.
Concentric Castie - A type of fort-
ress popular in the late 13th and
E
early 14th centuries, consisting of
an outer and inner ring of defences.
Harlech and Caerphilly are two of capture of Jerusalem. The Iast was
the more famous surviving Edward 1, 1239-1307 - 1s generally
examples. looked upon as one of the greatest
soIdier Kings of England. He was a
Council of Westminster - Sm- very ta11 man and his great length
moned by Ansel in 1102. One of its of leg earned liim the nickname of
important decisions was that ' Longshanks'. He was famous in
Bishops and Abbots would cease the tournament and as a hunter,.yet
from having the power to make he loved music. poetry and chess. In
knights. 1271 he joined the crusade defeat-
ing the Saracens at Haifa where he
*y - Fought on the 26th and made a ten year truce. He was
27th of Augiist 1346 when the accompanied on the expedition by
chivalry of France under Philip VI. his wife EIeanor of Castile who was
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