Quote Originally Posted by Gunny View Post
History that changed the World, nonetheless. This particular crusade began over the Great Schism and devolved into mercenary destruction of Constantinople -- the beginning of the end of the Byzantine Empire which eventually ushered in the Ottomans.

Can't say the Fourth Crusade was much of a great idea any way you look at it. Didn't work out for the Pope, nor Western civilization.
This would be an appropriate thread to show the pic I have of the Horns of Hattin. Wrong Crusade though.