"The Byzantine-Crusader Re-Conquest of Egypt " Topic
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| Tango01 | 21 Oct 2014 10:17 p.m. PST |
"The year 1169 saw the last great military offensive of the Eastern Roman Empire. A huge Byzantine fleet of 230 warships and transports conducted an amphibious landing on the north coast of Egypt. The aim was to conquer Egypt and divide the nation between the Empire and the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
A failed and poorly coordinated joint invasion of Egypt by the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Eastern Roman Empire could have changed history.
With the proper forces and will power there was the potential to drive out the Muslim rulers of Egypt and restore Christian rule much as was done centuries later in Spain…" link Full article here
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| Cyrus the Great | 22 Oct 2014 7:40 p.m. PST |
This was never going to happen because of the West's distrust of the Byzantine Empire. |
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gets medieval.