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Topic: Crusade of 1197
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Crusade of 1197

Years: 1197 - 1197

The Crusade of 1197 (also known as the Crusade of Henry VI or the German Crusade of 1197 German: Deutscher Kreuzzug) is a crusade launched by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI in response to the partial victory of Frederick I Barbarossa's crusade in 1190, and thus is also known as the "Emperor's Crusade.

The Crusade ends abruptly, after the fall of Sidon and Beirut.

Henry VI dies of a fever in Messina in October 1197, and many higher-ranking nobles return to Germany to protect their interests in the next imperial election.

The remaining nobles in the Crusade captured Sidon and Beirut before returning to Germany.

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past...Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered."

― George Orwell, 1984 (1948)