Primary Source 9.5: The Capture of Jerusalem in 1099

In this illustration from a fourteenth-century French version of Archbishop William of Tyre’s history of the First Crusade, Crusaders enter the city of Jersualem on scaling ladders as engines hurl stones to breach the walls.

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(Bibliothèque nationale de France)

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