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@goldenfiberwheat238 No, this is the guy who's going to Kickstart the fall of the Crusader states, his Son Nuradin is going to expand more on his work, and then Nuradin's underling is the man we know today as Saladin and who's going to finish it. But it all starts with this man, Zengi
Saladin is considered a military genius by some even though he lost more battles than he won even though he always outnumbered his enemies. I'd say the bar for being a military genius is pretty low.
@@zjeee Saladin was a master of the "Fabian Strategy" which involves not directly engaging the enemy until you have worn down their supply and their morale, such as at the Battle of Hattin, or the subsequent 3rd Crusade against Richard the Lionheart, though Richard kept winning battles, he couldn't change the strategic situation enough to counteract the effects of Saladin's Fabian Strategy.
@@zjeee---I read the Encyclopedia of Military History once and it said that Belisarius was the last military genius to come along in many centuries. It said that Saladin and Richard the Lionhearted were both competent military leaders. Not genius's.
From childhood my second favorite Islamic Leader was Imadul-din-Zangi (First obviously Khalid-ibn-Walid). And no am not Arab not turk nor even African. Tales of Imadul-din-Zangi and norudin zangi are fascinating.😮
Finally a video on the second crusade and zengids the zengids and second crusade is sooo slept on unfortunately can't wait for the other episodes to come out and I wish you to include the zengid campaign of crusades in Egypt as well 😁 and zengids taking control of Egypt
Damn, no joke I started Thomas Asbridge's book "The Crusades" just last week. What timing lol. Cool to see those events brought to life so soon after the more scholastic interpretation.
You should've Mentioned in a small notice that banyas mentioned in this video is a small town in southern Syria/ northern palestine, to avoid the confusion with the city of banias on the northern Syrian coast.
Great video as usual, but I suggest you guys to complete the Assyrian Empire series because it looks interesting! No military history channel has created a video about the campaigns of the Assyrian Empire, so I think that kings and generals should be the first to create a video about this topic....
Pls make one video on incredible Rasheed al din Sinan,leader of the assasins, one of the most intriguing and mysterious character of crusade era, nay of all time.
hey kings and generals when you are done with the 1st crusade are you planning on doing the 5th-8th crsuade, baron's crusade, and lord edward's crusade/9th crusade?
Every young leaders in their prime should look for his replacements based on extreme tests of quality. Its best to raise a leader from birth under scholars of philosophers and men of science. The end of times is near. World tension is at all time high. We need a global leader.
Baldwin II: "Ante aliquot annos vicimus Hierusalem. Gladiis nostris utamur. Ad Damascenus imus! Syria madet sanguine Christianorum. Antiochia in manu Christi. Damascenus exspectat! Urbs emergit ex horizonte. Crusegnati, semper porro! Circumdate muros orbis, obsidete portas! Nunc pugnamus Saracenos. Interfecti in terra iacent. Non refert utrum revertamur necne, pugnamus pro cruce! Defectus spei in cordibus bellatorum. Terra sicca et aspera erat. Viris in loricis summa aestate deserte mortem affert. Inimicitiae cesserunt orationibus. Christiani in gratiam redierunt. Spiritus caelestis super nos venit: 'PORRO IN CAMPOS CAELI!'' Tajul Mulk: "Uluğluk sana ol bedüklük sana. Senindin adın yok sana tuş tene. Aya ber birikmez sana bir adın. Kamuğ aşnuda sen sen öndün kedin. Yağiz yer yaşıl kök kün ay birle tün, törütti halăyik öd üdlek bu kün. Tiledi törütti bu bolmıš kamuğ. Bir ök bol tedi boldı kolmış kamuğ."
A defeat in major battle but certainly good news for the crusaders for a change, finally succession is secured, reinforcements arrive from Europe, new heir to antioch seems capable enough, victory at Marj al Saffar, Capture of Marfaniya,Banyas is taken without loss, the assassins come to the frankish side rather than the sunni side, civil strife between edessa and antioch is avoided.
@@syedharis1906 are you lacking brain cells ? Those are different series and single video. In this series he starts from 1119 to end of second crusade or possibly up to hattin
@@Mo_MudabberI’m assuming they mean an ethno-religious war in the same region, obviously the context and participants are much more different after a millennia or so
Yep, his descendants on both sides would be very very important. His grandson Baldwin, the the leper and his great grandson Richard the Lionheart would turn the crusades into a mortality
You probably never heard of the orders of the assassins which is a legitimate organization that existed during the Second and Third Crusades and even played a big role in the Third Crusade
I’m sorry but these series are too Euro-centric. You’re relying almost solely on European sources when there are plenty (and more reliable) Muslim sources on the conflict.
It’s targeted towards a western audience, there is only so much any history teacher can do when trying to explain things in a way a non-historian can understand
We have explained it numerous times. Yes, the Crusade starts later, but our series on this crusade includes its prelude. Similar to how we talked about Manzikert before the First Crusade.
No ethno-linguistic group dealt with Crusades more than the Turkic peoples did. Turks dealt with Crusades for 600 years both in the form of actual Crusades or Holy Leagues. There are around more than 12 Crusades & Holy Leagues directed at Turks. Pope should get on his knees and apologise to Turks.
@@zjeee Have you seen the DNA samples of Medieval Oghuz Turks and the DNA samples of Modern Oghuz Turks? Do you know how intense the Slab Grave genetic legacy is in modern Turks? Of course you don't, you know nothing but empty DNA videos on RU-vid. The Eastern Eurasian genetic heritage of Oghuz Turks living in Akshabat city in Turkmenistan is 18.75 percent and The Eastern Eurasian genetic heritage of an Oghuz Turk living in Mersin Türkiye is 15.30 percent The Eastern Eurasian Genetic Heritage of the Medieval Oghuz Turks is 22 percent Stop writing scenarios about Turkish DNA, learn what the Slab Tomb culture is, look at DNA samples with Medieval and Modern Turks:)
I have bad news for you. There were no Arabs in the Crusades. You were holed up in the cities and begging the Maturudi Oghuz Turks to save your lives. Seljuks, Artuqids, Burids, Danishmends, Sökmenids, Zengids are all dynasties of Oghuz Turk origin, the Mamluks who came after them are Kipchak Turks, the Ottomans are Oghuz Turks, you Asharis were writing books at that time, hiding in the cities and begging us Maturudi Turks to save your lives. Only the Ayyubids are a dynasty of Arab origin. They are a Turkified dynasty because they were slaves of the Zengi Dynasty. They are a failed, thieving, immoral, liar dynasty. They have no success other than taking Jerusalem. And They will give it back to the infidels in the 5-6th Crusades. What really saved Jerusalem were the Khwarezm Oghuz Turks who survived the Mongol Oppression.
