In the late fall of 1095 Pope Urban II gave a speech in Clermont, France and set all of Europe into motion.
Against all odds they succeeded, creating a Christian outpost in the heart of the Islamic world that lasted for the better part.
As many as a hundred and fifty thousand people eventually responded to the call, leaving everything they knew behind to undertake what appeared to be a fool\'s mission: marching several thousand miles into enemy territory to reconquer Jerusalem for Christendom.
In the late fall of 1095 Pope Urban II gave a speech in Clermont, France and set all of Europe into motion