12 ore 47 min, 17 agos 1096 anni - Peasant's Crusade - disaster
Descrizione:
Led by Peter the Hermit. People believed he was a visionary who would take them to Jerusalem. Arrived outside Constantinople 1096. Caused havoc - looting and ill-disciplined. Alexios provided supplies but the looting carried on so he shipped them across the Bosporus placing them in danger near Nicaea. Some attacked a fort at Xerigordos and they were besieged by Nicaea forces. Turks broke in and slaughtered them. The rest of the Peasants attacked for revenge but failed. Only Peter and a few others survived, escaping to Constantinople to wait for the main crusading parties.
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