Sentences with 'crusade'
Example sentences and phrases with the word crusade and other words derived from it.
• « Arguably the most disastrous crusade (in terms of failing to achieve its stated aim of controlling the Holy Land) was the Fourth Crusade, which lasted from 1199 to 1204. »
• « Technically, the last crusade was the Holy League, an army formed by several Central and Eastern European kingdoms sent to fight the Ottoman Empire in 1684. »
• « The most obvious example of this phenomenon was the Reconquista of Spain, which was explicitly seen through the lens of the crusade ideology of the time. In turn, the Reconquista was completed in 1492, precisely the same year that Christopher Columbus reached the Americas. »
• « This event prevented what might well have been a Mongol push into Central Europe itself; the Pope at the time called for an anti-Mongol crusade and Europeans who understood the extent of the threat were terrified at the prospect of the Mongols marching further west. In reality, the Mongols never returned. »