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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (52268)	6/30/2004 4:01:45 PM
From: Nemer	Respond to of 793903

It has been customary to describe the Crusades as eight in number: the first, 1095-1101; the second, headed by Louis VII, 1145-47; the third, conducted by Philip Augustus and Richard Coeur-de-Lion, 1188-92; the fourth, during which Constantinople was taken, 1204; the fifth, which included the conquest of Damietta, 1217; the sixth, in which Frederick II took part (1228-29); also Thibaud de Champagne and Richard of Cornwall (1239); the seventh, led by St. Louis, 1249-52; the eighth, also under St. Louis, 1270. In reality the Crusades continued until the end of the seventeenth century the crusade of Lepanto occurring in 1571, the crusade of Hungary in 1664, and the crusade of the Duke of Burgundy to Candia, in 1669. the battle which I referenced was in 1571 and it was the last GREAT battle between oared ships in the world it is entirely possible that the Iraq War will be the last GREAT battle between land forces in the world, especiallly if one includes Desert Storm which included the same basic combatants remains to be seen, but possible