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Crusader armies were remarkably genetically diverse, study finds

Started by davidb, April 18, 2019, 07:32:30 PM

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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.
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill

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

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.
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill