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🚩The Battle of the Field of Blood and the broader struggle for Aleppo was an intensely complex affair, drawing in many factions—Frankish, Turkish, Armenian, Arab, and Byzantine. Like so many of the Crusader States’ wars, it was rarely a simple matter of Christians versus Muslims.
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📢 Narrated by David McCallion
📝 Research and Writing by Dr. Byron Waldron
🎼 Music, courtesy of EpidemicSound
📝 Sources:
The Field of Blood: The Battle for Aleppo and the Remaking of the Medieval Middle East – Nicholas Morton (2018)
https://www.amazon.com/Field-Blood-Battle-Remaking-Medieval/dp/0465096697
The Crusaders in the East: A Brief History of the Wars of Islam with the Latins in Syria During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries – William Barron Stevenson (1907)
https://www.amazon.com/crusaders-East-history-thirteenth-centuries/dp/B0038HEVIO
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