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Location: Erdemli Icel Turkey

The Second Crusade is the West’s exaggerated …

Years: 1147 - 1147
October

The Second Crusade is the West’s exaggerated response to the fall of the County of Edessa, the first Crusader state to be founded and the first to fall.

Announced by Pope Eugene III, and promulgated by Bernard of Clairvaux, it is the first of the crusades to be led by European kings, namely Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany, with help from a number of other European nobles.

The armies of the two kings have marched separately across Europe.

Following their arrival in Constantinople, Conrad, rejecting Manuel's advice to follow the coastal route around Asia Minor, moves his main force past Nicaea directly into Anatolia.

At Dorylaeum on October 25, not far from the place where the first crusaders had won their victory, the Turks fall upon his weary, inadequately provisioned army and virtually destroy it.

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