![]() ![]() And those muskets were not held by Mamluks, or Ottoman Turks, but by the French. ![]() These popular conceptions of crusading bear little resemblance to the reality of the last crusades, where the final crusaders fell to muskets and cannon fire. This is the image of the crusades, and when they end, we imagine in our minds Orlando Bloom exiting the fallen Jerusalem, or an animated lion coming home from crusade to marry Robin Hood and Maid Marian, or, even, Harrison Ford riding out of the Canyon of the Moon having found the Holy Grail. ![]() Knights on horseback, charging beneath a cruciform banner-the red cross on the white background of surcoats, shields and swords at the ready, heading across the hard plains of the Levantine coast. This post is a part of our “ Faith in Revolution” series, which explores the ways that religious ideologies and communities shaped the revolutionary era. ![]()
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