https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/18/crusader-armies-remarkably-genetically-diverse-study
David Blanchard
Three men-at-arms or knights, two poulains or turcopoles and four local serjeants or soldiers - pretty much par for the course for a Crusader army, methinks.
I know the Crusader army tended to be rather small but I think 9 blokes trying to reconquer the Holy Land is placing rather a lot of faith in Devine Intervention...
To be honest I don't think many wargamers who did do any reading about the period would be surprised by the findings
Quote from: Tim on April 18, 2019, 09:21:05 PM
I know the Crusader army tended to be rather small but I think 9 blokes trying to reconquer the Holy Land is placing rather a lot of faith in Divine Intervention...
Obviously they had miscalculated the figure representational scale.