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To: NightOwl who wrote (103950)7/3/2003 5:09:00 AM
From: D. Long  Respond to of 281500
 
Then I take it that our current adventure should be properly viewed as a belated response to the Persian incursions under Darius & Sons? <vbg>

Sure! :)

Derek



To: NightOwl who wrote (103950)7/3/2003 5:52:44 AM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
No, just # 11 in a series:

First Crusade 1095-1099
Second Crusade 1147-1148
Third Crusade 1189-1192
Fourth Crusade 1202-1204
Fifth Crusade 1218-1221
Sixth Crusade 1228-1229
Seventh Crusade 1248-1254
Eighth Crusade 1798-1799 (Napolean in Egypt and Palestine)
Ninth Crusade 1917-1948 (British in Palestine and Iraq)
Tenth Crusade 1948-present (Zionist Crusader State)
Eleventh Crusade (2003-present, American conquest of Iraq, a flanking movement to protect the Zionists)