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Article: THE CRUSADES EXAULTED MOTIVES SOON GAVE WAY TO BASER HUMAN BEHAVIOR.(OUR MILLENNIUM)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- January 31, 1999
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Byline: STEPHEN HARRIMAN, STAFF WRITER
IN USE for just over 900 years, the word ``crusade'' has come to mean a concerted action for some cause against some abuse. General Dwight Eisenhower entitled his personal account of the Allied military campaign against godless, genocidal Nazi Germany and its Axis sycophants ``Crusade in Europe.''
Perhaps never in history has there been a better textbook example of good vs. evil than that.
1095: The first Crusades began that way - from a medieval Western European point of view, at least - but they precipitated a wide range of far-reaching consequences, some of them generally beneficial to mankind, some of ...