Four Main Battles: The Four Battle Of The Crusades

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Four armies of Crusaders were formed from troops of different Western European regions led by Raymond of Saint-Gilles, Godfrey of Bouillon, Hugh of Vermandois and Bohemond of Taranto with his nephew, Tancred. Less than a year after Pope Urban II’s call, these groups departed for Byzantium in August 1096. A less organised band of knights known as the People’s Crusade left before the others under the command of a popular preacher known as Peter the Hermit.

Peter’s army crossed the Bosporus in early August, disobeying Alexius’ command to wait for the rest of the Crusaders. Because of this, the first major battle between the Crusaders and Muslims, the Turkish forces came out on top and defeated the invading Europeans at Cibotus. Another group of Crusaders led by Count Emicho led many massacres of Jews in different towns in the Rhineland in 1096. This caused massive outrage across Europe and the Holy Land and broke anything left of the Jewish-Christian relations. …show more content…

One of the leaders, Bohemond refused to take the oath. The Crusaders and their Byzantine allies attacked Nidea, the Seljuk capital in Anatolia and forced the city to surrender in late

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