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@ThomasBarth-gr1sz

3 ай бұрын

hey, consider adding more context/a brief recap of previous events, before dropping these new videos. They can be a bit confusing to start watching and it gets kind of hard to keep track of events.

@KingsandGenerals

3 ай бұрын

@@ThomasBarth-gr1sz previous episodes are always linked

@robert-surcouf

3 ай бұрын

It's a good video but i don't understand why it's be count as a 2nd crusade video while the 2nd crusade only started in 1146 unless this serie covered also everything between the 1st and 2nd crusade ?

@KingsandGenerals

3 ай бұрын

@@robert-surcouf check out our video on the 1st crusade. It explains the rationale

@ricardorealistajr8304

3 ай бұрын

​@@KingsandGenerals more vids pls

The interwar period between the First and Second crusades is a very underrated and unknown part of its history. Despite featuring very important and noteworthy engagements.

One of the best channels on medieval history out there. Keep up the good work!

Big fan of the Crusade series! Thank you for this video. I think the Second Crusade is very underrated.

@cnw6306

3 ай бұрын

Yes very underrated one, even many of history youtuber instead somehow skip this second crusade and jump into the third one

@choiettech

3 ай бұрын

Every crusade after the 5th be like: Guess we'll just die

@EdwardMorgan-gf8bk

3 ай бұрын

This isn’t the Second Crusade.

@balabanasireti

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for making me dislike the word underrated by overusing it

@mirzubair8291

3 ай бұрын

Well in Western literature and History, it's underrated because it was a defeat same with 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Crusade where in the middle-eastern countries plus Turkey it is highly rated because how the Muslim won many great victory in those wars.

Something about the emphasis on "draw" makes me smile. Makes me imagine the two sides arguing and saying their own side won, only for a historian to passive-aggressively interject "it was a draw" occasionally.

Please cover this period to the 1291 siege of Acre. This series has been an enthralling ride so far!!

@KingsandGenerals

3 ай бұрын

We will!

My favorite series!

It was the time when some knights for the first crusade were still alive until the death of Baudouin 2 and the seljuks were still disunited. The crusaders will have the upper hand in Syria until Azaz in 1125 but when Zengi will become atabeg of Mossoul in 1127, playtime will sadly be over.

Another great video! love the crusade series!

Thank you so much for the video ⚔️

thank you so much!!

Amazingly done can't wait for the rest of second crusade videos

@nonamehere1626

3 ай бұрын

Username... checks out?

The fact that the Crusaders were drastically outnumbered yet lasted as long as they did is an amazing feature in itself.

@zjeee

3 ай бұрын

Quality over quantity

@PhilipusArabus

3 ай бұрын

The were only in walled cities on the coastal line with no advance deeper.

@PhilipusArabus

3 ай бұрын

@@zjeeeread siege of Acre 1291 AD. Western Europe vs one tony Palestinian city

@theawesomeman9821

3 ай бұрын

@@PhilipusArabus the fact that the Crusaders held those cities so long is impressive. They were up against opponents who should have beaten way earlier than what actually played out.

@PhilipusArabus

3 ай бұрын

@@theawesomeman9821 they couldn’t advance any further beyond these cities. Arabs held Spain for 800 years, yet they were outnumbered by other Europeans. It took Arabs only 2,5 years to reconquer spain

you know its gonna be a good day when a kings and generals video drops

Excellent work on the breakdown of a unique times of history.

When K&G drops a new video, you already know it's a good day 😎

Amazing videos. Keep up the good work 👍

Excellent video 📹

That was great, more Crusader stories would be appreciated!

This Crusades series has been amazing! 🔥⚔👏

The recent openings of the 2nd Crusade series have been eerily similar to videos by BazBattles, I wonder if he is involved in this.

@KingsandGenerals

3 ай бұрын

Nope

Please keep up these very interesting video's. The Second Crusade is not talked about enough.

Great video 👍🏻

Great videos as always! Please make future videos of Queen Nzinga, Queen Amanirenas, Piye, Shaka Zulu, Samore Toure, and many other African warriors/heroes.....

Thanks!

Such a Great Show !!!!!!!

thank you

How about The Battle of Artah(1105), a Battle between Tancred and Ridwan

@KingsandGenerals

3 ай бұрын

Covered in the first crusade

Nicholas Morton's 'Field of Blood' book is a great read for anyone interested in this time period

I’m absolutely loving this series on the aftermath of the first crusade and build up to the second?

Love the crusade videos

Thanks team. I come from a mixed Muslim / Christian heritage and through axhaustive research I have that I had ancestors on both sides of.this battle. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha'-ha !

This series is gonna be good! Will we get a remake of the third crusade? The old video is Great but it doesn't even come close to this level of quality

@KingsandGenerals

3 ай бұрын

Yep, at some point

@DrKarmo

3 ай бұрын

@@KingsandGenerals thank you guys! Keep up the good work, pretty excited to see the wars of the diadochi!

Love these crusade videos. Why couldn't I have been there 😅

Well done so when will you guys finish the mongols in Europe series in wizards

@KingsandGenerals

3 ай бұрын

March, hopefully. I finished writing the episode in January, but it is long and convoluted. We'll see.

@daganrosenblatt4285

3 ай бұрын

do the Mongols win.@@KingsandGenerals

K&G sorry out of topic, but I would like to suggest you guys to make a documentary about "Battle of the Masts" (650s), the battle is described in less detail in "Early Muslim Conquest" series and i hope you guys will make a documentary with more detail about that

Can you make a video of the society in the Crusader states like their way of life their social heirarchy and relations with other states within the East?

I can only imagine Robert seeing his leprosy as a blessing during his final moments, you cant threaten a dying man with death

Awesome

Can you talk about the Byzantine Perspective on this Second Crusade 🙏🙏? Because it's interesting and underrated topic.

I really loved this one, one of the names has a little tie. Courtenay. The red trefoils on a field of yellow. I had heard of him in my research of my family name. I am however Irish, original Garlic name morphed into Courtney so I am not a descendant, I am from the Black Irish, Iberian genes. Doesn't matter it is the name. There is a Camp Courtney on Okinawa, MOH recipient Major Courtney USMC. My son, CPL Courtney USMC, got double takes on his name tape when he was there. You are the first to even mention the Courtenays, thank you.

I bet the locals in there don't know this history.

@asmrnaturecat984

3 ай бұрын

Conceited and delusional, they are still living in civil war among bashar backed russia, shiites backed iran, kurdish backed american and turkish invasion(nato). And you dissed their intellect just because you watch a youtube video.

Good video. Keep up the good work. Hate how the best shit is on your subscription platform.

Another great episode! Very very minor point, you pronounce the Battle of the Field of Blood in French but Ager Sanguinis [AH-gher SAN-gwih-nihz] is the Latin term. It just makes it sound like “To Shake Saint Guinis”😅

@nikitaostrovsky8416

3 ай бұрын

Or AH-jehr san-GWEE-nis in medieval lain

I love the way it is 2d animated

damn ilghazi and Toktemin are like richard the lionheart good commanders but terrible people fond of execuding priosners. Robert's unwillingness to sell his soul to save his life is admirable as well.

@cjbarrow46

3 ай бұрын

it's spelled executed*

@user-nv4ih6td4f

3 ай бұрын

Imadaddin Zengi was same. They are Central Asian characteristically.

Nice

Hallelujah

@DacianAstilean-Styles-en8hp

3 ай бұрын

@@KawXar2004 calm down please.

@DacianAstilean-Styles-en8hp

3 ай бұрын

@@KawXar2004 1. I am an orthodox Christian not catholic 2. One thing is me saying something and the other you assuming it 3. The Christians weren’t really at fault for the crusades

Interesting times. Didn't know much about any of the major players though the story about the failed ransom because the captive refused to convert and was killed is familiar for some reason.

Hail to the king!

2nd Crusade is probably my favourite, as both sides are pretty much evenly matched in terms of numbers and experience. The Zengids put a whooping on the Christians, but they still held together to survive.

Strength and Honor! Deus lo vult...

great job also are you going to continue the ottoman series until the fall of the empire after WW1 ??

@AhmedAshraf-ue6yz

3 ай бұрын

speaking of WW1 It would be great if you guys did series on it.

@KingsandGenerals

3 ай бұрын

Ya

Thanks for the video! One small nitpick: At 2:54 you call Bohemond II "the de facto ruler". It's precisely the reverse: he was the "de jure" ruler, while the "de facto" rulers were first Bernard and later Baldwin II.

Looking forward to more of the 2nd Crusade. The main thing I know about it is Eleanor of Aquitaine (then queen of France) bringing her ladies-in-waiting as trained knights on crusade, much to the bewilderment of the more culturally conservative Romans.

@user-fl5mq9kp7g

3 ай бұрын

Romans: Europeans: are free, women fight, that's why Khosrow

can you do the battle of badar

What about this is the second crusade? Or is it more of a setup for the broader story.

Another fantastic video on the lead up to the second crusade and showing if it weren’t for the resilience of the crusaders in defeat, decisive leadership and tactical superiority sided by a few Muslim Mistakes, crusader states counsel have fallen much sooner than they actually did.

having an army almost 2-3 times the size and loosing is just crazy to see.

@okancanarslan3730

3 ай бұрын

crusaders were heavily armored, more zealous, well trained, and battle hardened while Muslim forces were mostly light armored horse archers and infantry. It is like special forces against a more numerous regular army troops.

@zjeee

3 ай бұрын

There really wasn't much the Muslims could do against heavily armored European knights in a stand up fight, Saladin is considered by some one of the greatest Muslim generals of all time and even he lost most of his battles against the crusaders even though he ALWAYS outnumbered them. They were like medieval tanks, you had to trick them into a trap to deal with them you just could not take them on in a stand up fight.

@user-zh6fx4mh4p

3 ай бұрын

@@okancanarslan3730 why do you feel the Christians were more Zealous?

@Noor.h

3 ай бұрын

@@zjeee ohhhh thanks for the info. i swear if you had cavalry you basically had the strongest army? example mongols leashed hell upon every army it faced having almost all cavalry bow archers contingent as well as being light armored? that baffles me

@Noor.h

3 ай бұрын

@@okancanarslan3730 again tho mongols leashed hell upon heavy armored and well trained foot infantry and they were almost all horse archers and light armored?

Mongols season 1 remake please

please do a video on these (this is a copy and paste list for a few channels) history of south Russia (just above caucuses) how Mongolia helped Russia in ww2 and cold war, life as a Christian/jew in rome life as a jew/, Muslim in Byzantine Empire life as a non Muslim in arab empires greek life under rome, Mongolia life under china, and later in ww2/cold war and mabey a little on modern the scholae palatine units and tactics/evaluation of loadouts of troops (from different jobs (and other branches) like the 82 snd 101 airborne units or infantry tank units, (or when tanks were assigned a infantry unit like i think earlier war Russia then all tanks were formed into there own units wich meant the infantry no longer knew the true strength of there own tanks but alowed tank units to fight more efficiently) the evaluation of tank doctrine of countries evaluation of tanks/armored vehicles of different countries evaluation of aircraft types of different countries, different between navil and army/air force fighters logistics units of the axes and allied powers in ww2 ww1 estern front tactics Russian Civil war tactics and strategies navil ship cross sections (all the rooms and how it all works) evaluation of types of ships or evaluation of navil warfare (or just dedectsded videos on ww1 and ww2 navil doctrine as theres stuff out there on other times of history) air craft carrier strike group formations exsamples (from different countries) ancient persan ships, ancient veneti ships (gauls that fought ceaser) ships used by genoa and the vernesain republic the vernesain republic government all sailing ships, (i know theres many on yt but some contradict each other and i think theres more left out) ancient macenean greek and trojan troops 2b9 vasilyok morter tactics used so far in the Ukraine war, better for squads to be 2 teams of 5 or 3 teams of 3, and probably the easiest, better to keep troops well feed or starved like an animal how dose age effect comsnders eg napoleon got older so took less risks, ancient urban warfare ww2 tactics in Asia, tactics in the Chinese age of warlords, (and Chinese civil war) tactics in the ruso jap war cold war navil tactics, Korean war tactics, strange tactics or unque battles from the American war of independence and America civil how were 17th centry sailing ships build comands given on sailing ships (like ease the sheets and get ready to chine, or slack n beases, basically things you hear movie capitns say) why did the nazis never return (or a video on best occupations) why did the Japanese empire fall, dont just say "America" like things like how there army and navy argued alot alot more on the Polynesians and māori, but please learn pronounceations if you do this

Do a whole video on Nur Ad Din Zengid. He was just as badass as Baybars and Salahaddin.

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nice vid. more baldwin please

Hey Kings and Generals team, can you make a video on how did the Powers in Europe react to the initial Muslim conquests of Byzantine territory and Iberia? We usually only focus on later Crusades and Reconquista years after Islam makes contact with the Christian world. Did they think it was a usual invasion of Barbarians and that these people would eventually convert to Christianity or leave and didn't have a goal of converting them to a new religion? How aware were they of Islam in the beginning? That would be an interesting video.

Hello, hey brother, I love your content, but I would like you to put more subtitles in Spanish.🤙

you should add more background context, and a brief recap of previous episodes, before dropping these videos. It can get confusing to start watching and hard to keep track of events.

@KingsandGenerals

3 ай бұрын

Previous episode is linked in the description

@JCM-jj1rj

3 ай бұрын

don't bother

Non nobis domine, sed nomine tuo da gloriam

Very nice animation done by Malay Archer. The man is truly amazing and has used some nice mods for this project. Speaking of mods, MA if you are reading this, could you send a full list of mods used in your TW videos?

A second crusade? At this point its just a bad Hab(it)

Do more and make more about the seljuks

This was disputed victory also artuqids claims victory ✌

Elgazi did manage to take more benefits then any loser, losers does lose, they doesn't bargain anything or they doesn't win anything. So it's very hard to say, who did win. Both sides did gained something from this battle.

الشي اللافت ان اسماء المدن و البلدات على الخريطة تتفق حينا و تختلف احيانا عن الاسماء العربية المتداولة اليوم

The Second Crusade was from 1147-1150. Wouldn’t this be post First Crusade Jerusalem?

@KingsandGenerals

3 ай бұрын

We have explained why we have divided the events this way. Basically, as soon as most of the leaders of the first crusade died, prelude to the second Crusade started

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supple stuff

Sacrifice to the algorithm

Something from Serbia vs K.u.K? No?

To me it definitely seemed like a Phyrric victory to the Latins, but a victory none the less and against overwhelming odds.

It should be called battle of Habibi

Love the series. But... why are you calling this period "Second Crusade"? The Second Crusade started with the fall of Edessa in 1144. Granted, there were always expeditions going to the Holy Land since 1100 (going on Crusade was to undertake a pilgrimage), but historiography always considers the Second Crusade as taking place in the 1140s. If you consider the late 1110s as Second Crusade, well, it wouldn't even be the Second if one considers the expeditions of the 1100s...

@moonshadowsong

3 ай бұрын

Any war fallow after the second crusader still counts as the second until the 3th crusader started

@cathar1209

3 ай бұрын

@@moonshadowsong but this video does not talk about a war after the Second Crusade.

Crusader wars 2: baldwin strikes back

Russo-Japanese war??? How did I missed that?

Why did you pronounce “Ager Sanguinis” as if it was a French name, it’s Latin.

by the way the Zengids were not defeated in any battle by the Crusaders according to Muslim chronicals

Never do battle against a Baldwin ... especially if he has a prop gun.

@user-fl5mq9kp7g

3 ай бұрын

And yet I lost (burn)

Serbian title??

Ilgazi's butt was kicked 2 years later by Georgians, at the battle of Didgori on August 12, 1121.

I think if the eastern roman empire would have engaged battle in favour of the cruseders against the arabs, their history might have had a better faith...

This channel must be a best source for History teachers to copy from.

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Only first crusade had success for the Christians as the Muslim leaders didn't know what to expect and full motives of the invaders. Also the Muslims in the region were busy in fighting for power/throne. From second to the 12th crusades - all brought nothing but utter humiliation for the crusaders. They landed in north Africa in later crusades but that did not bring them success. Successive 11 heavy defeats clearly shows Christian Pagans did not have the mojo to win, on the contrary ended up losing their heads.

@robert-surcouf

2 ай бұрын

The 4th was a success too but they forget that the enemy should be the muslims and not the christians orthodox. The 2nd was also a success in the iberic peninsula and northeast europe.

@ikman3410

2 ай бұрын

@@robert-surcouf Success is the end result. A war might have dozens of battles. Winning one battle won't make it a successful war.

Hey, can you please make video how Islam & Christianity came to Indonesia? As an Indonesian, Islam didn't really come with trade especially to what happened with my ethnic groups, an indigenous ethnic group in the middle of Sumatran jungles and Bukit Barisan mountain range near the largest vulcanic lake in the world. In 1539, Acehnese Sultanate invaded my ancestors's kingdom when our king refused Islam. Aceh lost the war then they bought & hired Ottoman weapons & soldiers to invade us. In the 1810s during Padri War, an Islamic civil war in Minangkabau, Padri soldiers also heard a cannibalistic pagan tribes in the middle of North Sumatra remained as pagans, Padri soldiers massacred 200.000 people even executed our king for not accepting Islam, they brutally ransacked our villages/cities & massacred my ethnic groups who refused their religion. They were failed to conquer us when a cholera outbreak happened thanks to dead bodies that leaked cholera. After they failed to conquer us, our ancestors were devastated after watching our ransacked kingdoms and dead relatives even cholera outbreak happened and decimated our population. My ancestors became hostile towards outsiders/foreigners. A couple of US Baptist missionarists came and introduced Christianity. Too bad, the locals thought they were another hostile foreigners/outsiders and they caught & ate them. Before Christianity came, my people were pagans who had cannibalistic culture/rituals. My ancestors conducted cannibalism towards people who did terrible crimes such as rape, murder, or treason. POWs were also eaten back then. Before Christianity, my ancestors believed if we ate people, it'd grant us magical strength. A German missionarist came and introduced Christianity among my people. He built schools, hospitals, etc. But a lot of kingdom citizens hated him coz Christianity could destroy our culture and religion such as our cannibalistic rituals. Cannibalism was eventually banned when Dutch colonial regime imposed anti cannibalism law towards us in 1900s. If Christianity never came, perhaps my people would still do capital punishment in form of cannibalism. Unlike other Indonesian regions which were colonized for 350 years, we only got conquered in 1907 when Dutch soldiers succesfully assassinated our priest king. Dutch faced difficulties at fighting a cannibalistic nation in the middle of Sumatran jungles near a large lake. In Marco Polo’s memoirs of his stay on the east coast of Sumatra (then called Java Minor) from April to September 1292, he mentions an encounter with hill folk whom he refers to as "man-eaters".[24] From secondary sources, Marco Polo recorded stories of ritual cannibalism among the "Battas". Marco Polo's stay was restricted to the coastal areas, and he never ventured inland to directly verify such claims. Despite never personally witnessing these events, he was nonetheless willing to pass on descriptions which were provided to him, in which a condemned man was eaten: "They suffocate him. And when he is dead they have him cooked, and gather together all the dead man's kin, and eat him. And I assure you they do suck the very bones till not a particle of marrow remains in them...And so they eat him up stump and rump. And when they have thus eaten him they collect his bones and put them in fine chests, and carry them away, and place them in caverns among the mountains where no beast nor other creature can get at them. And you must know also that if they take prisoner a man of another country, and he cannot pay a ransom in coin, they kill him and eat him straightway.[25] Oscar von Kessel visited Silindung in the 1840s and in 1844 was probably the first European to observe a Batak cannibalistic ritual in which a convicted adulterer was eaten alive. His description parallels that of Marsden in some important respects, however von Kessel states that cannibalism was regarded by the Batak as a judicial act and its application was restricted to very narrowly defined infringements of the law including theft, adultery, spying or treason. Salt, red pepper and lemons had to be provided by the relatives of the victim as a sign that they accepted the verdict of the community and were not thinking of revenge.[32] Ida Laura Pfeiffer visited the Batak in August 1852 and although she did not observe any cannibalism, she was told that: "Prisoners of war are tied to a tree and beheaded at once; but the blood is carefully preserved for drinking, and sometimes made into a kind of pudding with boiled rice. The body is then distributed; the ears, the nose, and the soles of the feet are the exclusive property of the Rajah, who has besides a claim on other portions. The palms of the hands, the soles of the feet, the flesh of the head, and the heart and liver, are reckoned peculiar delicacies, and the flesh in general is roasted and eaten with salt. The Regents assured me, with a certain air of relish, that it was very good food, and that they had not the least objection to eat it. The women are not allowed to take part in these grand public dinners."[33] Samuel Munson and Henry Lyman, American Baptist missionaries to the Batak, were cannibalized in 1834.

@Morbid_Angel2891

3 ай бұрын

Filipino here. Are you a Batak? Most Indonesian customs are very similar to Filipino customs including headhunting though we dont really practice cannibalism

@epg96

3 ай бұрын

@@Morbid_Angel2891 yes

@WaterShowsProd

3 ай бұрын

How were relations between your people and The Srivijaya Kingdom? Were there struggles, or did they integrate? Did Srivijaya try to prevent cannibalistic practices at all?

@cnw6306

3 ай бұрын

Very happy to see fellow history fans from Indonesian in here ☺️

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Why is there no translation in Arabic? You are a big channel and creating translation is not difficult

@KingsandGenerals

3 ай бұрын

If it is not difficult, create it and send our way. We don't have a budget for that.

@cnw6306

3 ай бұрын

Just use auto translate man, I used the feature to change the English subtitles to Indonesian subtitle

@user-zh6fx4mh4p

3 ай бұрын

Try practicing grattitude instead of greed. you may not have had a mother in your life so let me be the one to teach you that it is always better to ask someone that to demand it. especially if they've given you something for free. In my culture it is considered quite rude to complain about a gift.

why you r using term of (Saracens army) !!!! this is offensive my friend ... Saracens meaning (thieves ) by Crusader's ... the term is a Muslims army or Arabic army as u r using Christians army !!!

@user-zh6fx4mh4p

3 ай бұрын

to be fair this was a largely turkic not arab army so calling it arabic would be wrong as well,

@bossbalanati9196

3 ай бұрын

Arabic or Turkic no difference my friend they are all called Islamic army @@user-zh6fx4mh4p

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Turks are not saracens ılghazi and togtekin was turkish warlords .their army was mostly turkish not arab