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Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont-Ferrand in France to launch the First Crusade.
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second major crusade launched from Europe, called in 1145 in response to the fall of the County of Edessa the previous year. It was announced by Pope Eugene III, and was the first of the crusades to be led by European kings, Louis VII & Conrad III of Germany, also with the help from a number of other important European nobles. The armies of the two kings marched separately across Europe.
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Saladin bought his big army to Jerusalem and during the battle his army destroyed the Christian army allowing him to retake the city. But Saladin did allow the survivors of the city to flee to ships taking them out of the holy land.
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The Third Crusade (1189–1192), also known as the Kings' Crusade, was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin. It was largely successful, yet fell short of its ultimate goal—the reconquest of Jerusalem.
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The Siege of Acre took place in 1291 and resulted in the loss of the Crusader-controlled city of Acre to the Muslims.
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It was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire, which occurred after a siege by the Ottoman Empire, under the command of Sultan Mehmed II, against the defending army commanded by Emperor Constantine XI
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The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, known by Israelis as the War of Independence, was the first in a series of wars fought between the State of Israel and its Arab neighbours in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict.
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The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, was a war fought by Britain, France, and Israel against Egypt. October 29, 1956 (1956-10-29)
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A campaign of guerrilla warfare carried out by the National Liberation Front against the French Algerian authorities in 1957
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Referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from thirty-four nations led by the United States, against Iraq.
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19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four airplanes. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airplanes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. Both towers collapsed. The hijackers crashed a third airplane into The Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville where it was actually suppose to hit the Capital Building or white house.
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The Iraq War or War in Iraq, also referred to as the Second Gulf War or Operation Iraqi Freedom, was a military campaign that began on March 20, 2003, with the invasion of Iraq by a multinational force led by troops from the United States under the administration of President George W. Bush and the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Tony Blair.