Crusaders

Crusaders - A troup of crusaders, siege of religious wars

Number of soldiers= estimated to have numbered as many as 100,000

Religion= Christian

7 June 1099, carried out by the Crusader army, which successfully captured Jerusalem from the Fatimid Caliphate and subsequently founded the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Having returned the city and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to Christian rule, the siege was the final major armed engagement of the First Crusade, which had been proclaimed in 1095 to recover the Holy Land for the Christians in the context of the Muslim conquest. A number of eyewitness accounts of the battle were recorded, with the most quoted events being derived from the anonymous Latin-language chronicle Gesta Francorum.

After Jerusalem was captured, thousands of Muslims and Jews were massacred by Crusader soldiers. As the Crusaders secured control over the Temple Mount, revered as the site of the two destroyed Jewish Temples, they also seized Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock and repurposed them as Christian shrines.[10] French nobleman Godfrey of Bouillon, prominent among the Crusader leadership, was elected to govern the new Christian state as the King of Jerusalem.

Sent by the Bizantine Emperor, The Crusaders must now conquer Jerusalem again.