4th Crusade

Third Crusade

Second Crusade

First Crusade

The First Crusade was called by Urban II .The first wave was composed mostly of peasants and average people who wanted to pilgrimage , but they were followed by military crusaders in different waves. In 1099 they  took control of Jerusalem from the Muslims and formed the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. This Kingdom lasted until 1187 until Jerusalem was re-taken by the Muslims. The Second Crusade wascalled in 1144 when the Muslim Turkscaptured Edessa.  The Third Crusade was launched in response to the fall of Jerusalem in 1187. This crusade included the King Richard of England. Their only military achievement was the taking of Acre. King Richard did negotiate a truce with Sultan Saladin to allow Christians to go in pilgrimage to Jerusalem. 
The Fourth Crusade- Instead of the crusaders reaching the Holy Land to fight Muslims, they sacked the Christian city of Constantinople in 1204, the seat of the Christian Byzantine Empire. It was formed into the Latin Empire of Constantinople until 1261 when the Byzantine Empire was reestablished. The Greeks recaptured it after 60 years , and the Turks took it over in 200 years .

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