THE 5TH CRUSADE
In the MTW as you all know the Ugrians and the Polish cannot launch a crusade.Most of you might think that this is historically corect.Well, yesterday i found an old history book that talked about the 5th Crusade...
I was thrilled because i thought that the Crusades were only 4.
At 1443 the Byzantine emperor John Palaiologos H'(the 7th) was overun by the Turks.So he requested the help of the "Westerns",(Hesperinoi as they are called in Greek).The pope called the true sons of the Catholick church to respont to the call for help from the Orthodox Cristian brothers from the east to fight the common enemy of Cristiandom.England and France at that time were at war whith each other and Germany was separated in 400 federations and it was imposible to commit such act.So,in that dificult hour for the Byzantines the Ugrians and the Polish accepted to anser that call for help.
Under the command of the young King Ladislav the crusaders marched towards the Balkans and in 10 November of 1444 they met the huge Turkish army at Varna.The crusaders were outnumbered by the Turks (56,000 Cristians against 170,000 Turks!!!)and their equipment was lesser than the enemy's.But the crusaders had an advantage,their hight morale.They were sure of their victory because their perpose was holy.The homelands of Cristianity were in danger,they had to protect them at all costs!
It was a bloody fight that lasted half day.Blood formed a huge lake that was as deep as the hight of the knees!The crusaders were very close to victory but a huge disaster hapened.The leader of the crusade,king Ladislav,was knoked down by a Turkish spear!He was almost 20 years old but he gave his life for this holy purpose...
Everything was lost for the Cristians from the momment the boy king fell dead...
The batle was lost and the glorius Hellenik empire of Byzantium altought have fought valorous,in the end fell to the hands of the savage Turks...But the casualties of the batlle of Varna teached the Turks a bloody lesson and stoped their expansion to the old continent,Europe.


This is the story of the 5th crusade and i wonder if in the last period the Polish and the Hungurians can launch a crusade...

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