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| Tango01 | 03 Jun 2017 4:33 p.m. PST |
….Captured With A Single Sheet of Paper "A hulking edifice of sun-bleached stone, Krak des Chevaliers loomed against a clear blue sky. How many men had died to hold those walls, and how many more to take them? On that bright April morning in 1271, it seemed as though the bloodshed might, for now at least, be at an end. Through the gate they came; a long line of mounted men. They wore burnished mail and surcoats of black wool, and on their chests, they bore the splayed white cross of the Hospitallers. Their order had once been key in the Crusaders' conquest – now, the golden age of their dominion was behind them. Many rode without their helms, still more with bloodied features and splinted limbs, but every man held his head high. The Knights, proud even in surrender, surveyed the Sultan's forces with a cold gaze…"
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| Great War Ace | 03 Jun 2017 8:32 p.m. PST |
Krak was not "more than two hundred years" old. It was built in stages by the Franks, starting in 1142: the earlier castle of Kurdish origin was replaced. The outer wall was built between 1242 and 1270. |
| Sobieski | 04 Jun 2017 2:56 a.m. PST |
Red surcoats by then, I understand. |
| Great War Ace | 04 Jun 2017 8:33 a.m. PST |
The year 1254 saw the change to red, iirc. |
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