The Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople: Jonathan Phillips sees one of the most notorious events in European history as a typical 'clash of cultures'.

From: History Today | Date: May 1, 2004| Author: Phillips, Jonathan | Copyright information

THE CAPTURE OF CONSTANTINOPLE by the armies of the Fourth Crusade was one of the most remarkable episodes in medieval history. One of their number wrote, 'No history could ever relate marvels greater than those as far as the fortunes of war are concerned'. On April 12th, 1204, an army of perhaps 20,000 men and a fleet of about 200 ships crewed by Venetian sailors and warriors, broke in and began to loot the greatest metropolis in the Christian world. Constantinople's mighty walls h...

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