Defending the Crusader Kingdoms: Defense of the Crusader Kingdoms

This blog is dedicated to discussing the Crusader Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus. Dr. Schrader holds a PhD in History from the University of Hamburg. For more information visit: http://defenderofjerusalem.com or http://crusaderkingdoms.com

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Friday, November 25, 2016

Montgisard, November 25, 1177

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On November 25, 1177 a Frankish army under the command of a 16-year-old leper routed the army of the mighty Sultan of Cairo and Da...

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Friday, June 3, 2016

Jerusalem Fights Back

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In early June 1189, the survivors of the catastrophe at Hattin — with the architect of that disaster conspicuously absent — took to t...

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Friday, January 23, 2015

The Armies of Outremer in the 12th Century

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For the nearly ninety years between the founding of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the defeat of the Christian army at Hattin i...

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Helena P. Schrader: Helena P. Schrader is a former U.S. diplomat, who earned her PhD in Modern History from the University of Hamburg. She spent roughly one-third of her life in Berlin and first explored the pivotal events of the Berlin Crisis 1948-1949 in her comprehensive non-fiction study The Blockade Breakers: The Berlin Airlift. Schrader is the author of twenty novels, twelve of which have earned one or more literary awards. Three of her books have also attained "best-seller" status on amazon, including #1 Best Seller in the categories Aviation History and Wartime Fiction.

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