History on Sidechat | As a follow up to this it’s fascinating how Egypt represented the biggest threat to the Crusader States basically since their inception but the Crusaders don’t really do anything about it until they’ve been pretty decisively put on the back foot

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As a follow up to this it’s fascinating how Egypt represented the biggest threat to the Crusader States basically since their inception but the Crusaders don’t really do anything about it until they’ve been pretty decisively put on the back foot

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The Crusader States and Their Neighbors by Nicholas Morton is a great read for anyone interested in the history of the Crusader States

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Obviously Jerusalem was always the ultimate goal but with the way the Fatimids were repeatedly trounced on the battlefield it seems in hindsight that the better strategic decision would’ve been to launch an invasion of Egypt before pressing on to take Jerusalem after securing one of the richest parts of the Eastern Mediterranean as a supply base. This may have taken years but a firmly established Catholic monarchy in Egypt I think could’ve easily taken and held of the Levant

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