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| - The First Crusade originated in Rome in 1094, when Pope Urban II declared that the Catholic states of Europe, mainly England, France, and the Holy Roman Empire, to declare a crusade against the Orthodox Christian Byzantines and their rapidly expanding Muslim community, and declared the citizens of the Byzantine Empire heretics. The Pope spent two years campaigning for troops, until he had raised an army of 35,000 soldiers, 30,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry, to invade the Byzantine Empire. The Pope's plan was to send the army of Crusaders by sea to capture the Holy Land, before moving to capture Constantinople.
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| - The First Crusade originated in Rome in 1094, when Pope Urban II declared that the Catholic states of Europe, mainly England, France, and the Holy Roman Empire, to declare a crusade against the Orthodox Christian Byzantines and their rapidly expanding Muslim community, and declared the citizens of the Byzantine Empire heretics. The Pope spent two years campaigning for troops, until he had raised an army of 35,000 soldiers, 30,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry, to invade the Byzantine Empire. The Pope's plan was to send the army of Crusaders by sea to capture the Holy Land, before moving to capture Constantinople. The Byzantines were taken by surprise in 1106, when the Crusaders landed at Acre, and captured the city in two days. The Byzantine Emperor declared war on the Crusaders, and sent a Byzantine army of 50,000 to expel Crusaders from Acre. As the Crusaders marched south, They captured Jerusalem in early 1097, and were then set into battle with the Byzantine Army, ordered to destroy the Crusader armies, an were pushed back after a four-hour battle. The failure to recapture Jerusalem was a great disgrace to the Byzantine Army, who were depleted in troops, and fought only small skirmishes against the Crusaders. The Crusaders continued to capture more Byzantine land in Judea, and the city of Ashkelon fell in 1098, marking an end to Byzantine resistance to the Crusaders. The rest of the war was by the Crusaders in defense from multiple Byzantine counterattacks, which ceased in early 1099. The Pope was finally sent a letter from Emperor Alexios, asking for a peace. The Pope accepted, and the result was the creation of the Church-owned Kingdom of Jerusalem, and a national disgrace of the Byzantine Empire.
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