Crusader armies were remarkably genetically diverse, study finds

[davidb]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/18/crusader-armies-remarkably-genetically-diverse-study

David Blanchard

[Patrick Waterson]

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.

[Tim]

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...

[Jim Webster]

To be honest I don't think many wargamers who did do any reading about the period would be surprised by the findings

[Patrick Waterson]

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.