The Crusades

766.01 - 800.558 Nathan W. Bingham

And it is estimated that perhaps as many as 100,000 Europeans headed east from Europe in that first crusade to try to regain Jerusalem. And the amazing thing is, they succeeded. In the providence of God, the crusade, the first crusade, went forth at a moment of a great deal of internal dissent and weakness in the Muslim world. And the crusaders were able to enter Jerusalem on July 15, 1099.