First Crusaders Research Paper

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When Crusaders entered Jerusalem during the first crusade, it was very violent and with the
______________________________________________________________________________ STANFORD HISTORY EDUCATION GROUP sheg.stanford.edu violence came much bloodshed. Soldiers of Jerusalem were in the middle of the war, as well as the townspeople. No lives were spared, not even women and children. It was truly a relentless fight. According to Raymond d'Aguiliers, an eyewitness of the first crusade, the crusaders took over the buildings first. Within the towers, many were shot with arrows to fall from the tower, while others had their heads cut off. The violence does not stop there, as he went as far as to describe the setting as, “men rode in blood up to their