Saturday, May 06, 2006

TFC
(The fearless Crusader)





In 1095 A.D, the Byzantine emperor Alexius I sent petitions to Pope Urban II to help defend his kingdom against the Turks. The Pope reacted with his famous speech that inspired thousands to wage war in a Holy Crusade against the Turks.

Knights and Peasants alike poured out from village to village; going by land and by sea to Jerusalem. Thousands of Crusader Knights ransacking any enemy villages in the way, and accumulated the plunder. In 1099, they reached Jerusalem, and captured the city with an iron fist.

That was 88 years ago. Today you are in the middle of the Third Crusade. The dreaded Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, has recaptured Jerusalem. The new Pope Gregory VIII has called for a crusade, and Christianity once again wars against the Muslim nations