As entered in the Catholic Encyclopedia, the Crusades were "expeditions undertaken, in fulfillment of a solemn vow, to deliver the Holy Places from Mohammedan tyranny" (Crusades, 2003, 1). It was a holy quest that would take more than four decades to achiev
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