The Religious Crusades
Date Submitted: 10/28/2003 09:20:42
Category: / History / European History
Length: 13 pages (3523 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 13 pages (3523 words)
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…though the military religious orders
kept garrisons on Cyprus and Rhodes for some centuries. However, the Crusading impulse
was not dead. As late as 1396 a large expedition against the Ottoman Turks in the
Balkans, summoned by Sigismund of Hungary, drew knights from all over the West. But a
crushing defeat at Nicopolis on the Danube River also showed that the appeal
of these ventures far outstripped the political and military support needed for their
success.
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