5 sentences with 'crusades'

Example sentences and phrases with the word crusades and other words derived from it.

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« Thus, the crusades were the first armed Christian pilgrimage, and indeed, the first "official" Christian holy war in the history of the religion. »
« A large dose of optimism, fuelled by the revivalism of evangelical Protestantism, underpinned the moral crusades of the first half of the nineteenth century. »
« Islamic empires were often enemies of various Christians. They were certainly the target of European crusades. But, at the same time, Christian kingdoms were often enemies of each other as well. »
« Subsequent crusades were far less successful. The problem was that, once they had formed their territories, the Westerners had to hold on to them with little more than a series of forts up and down the coast. »
« The backbone of the crusades were the chivalric orders: organisations of knights authorised by the church to conduct wars in the name of Christianity. These orders arose after the First Crusade, originally organised to protect Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. »

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