10 h 15 jul 1099 año - Jerusalem is taken (The morning of Friday 22 sha'ban 492)

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"Jerusalem was taken from the north on the morning of Friday 22 sha ‘ban 492 [15 July 1099]...
“The Franks slaughtered more that 70,000 people… The Franks stripped the Dome of the Rock of more that forty silver candelabra…

“We have mingled blood with flowing tears, and there is no room left in us for pity…” (Ibn al-Athir, 277).

Pictures: Émile Signol, “Taking of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, 15th July 1099,” 1847, digital image, The Bridgeman Art Library, accessed April 12, 2018, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Counquest_of_Jeusalem_(1099).jpg.

“1099 Siege of Jerusalem,” 14th century?, digital image, accessed April 12, 2018, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1099_Siege_of_Jerusalem.jpg.