Crusader Prince Godfrey of Bouillon, who became the first crusader monarch of Jerusalem, decided not to use the title " king " during his lifetime, and declared himself Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri ( Protector ( or Defender ) of the Holy Sepulchre ).

It was during the period of Crusader rule in Syria ( 1099 – 1291 ) that the Druze first emerged into the full light of history in the Gharb region of the Chouf Mountains.

* Jerusalem during the Crusader period

Rifleman John Beeley was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his actions during Operation Crusader.

Goitein believes the leadership he displayed during the ransoming of the Crusader captives led to this appointment.

It is unclear exactly when, but during that same year, he attacked and captured the Crusader castle of Eilat, built on an island off the head of the Gulf of Aqaba.

* Genoa, Venice and Pisa gain trading privileges from the Crusader states in return for their service during the conquest of the coastal cities.

The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the other Crusader states, with Moslem states ( in shades of green ) in 1135 during the reign of Melisende.

* Crusader states, states set up by the Europeans in the Balkans and the Middle East during The Crusades

One such report claims he did so on Thursday, October 21, 1165, during the Crusader period.

The Arab village of Az-Zeeb was established during the Mamluk and Ottoman periods, the houses erected using the stones of the Crusader castle.

" He refers to Benjamin of Tudela who, during the late Crusader Period in around 1167 CE, wrote that " In front of this place is the Western Wall, which is one of the walls of the Holy of Holies.

English translation by William Weaver, New York: Harcourt 2002, ISBN 0-15-100690-3 ) is set partly at Constantinople during the Crusader conquest.

The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the other Crusader states in 1135 AD, during the reign of Fulk.

During Rommel's first offensive, the Italians managed to divert RAF attacks from Rommel's forces and covered Rommel's retreat during the British Operation Crusader while inflicting heavy losses on RAF bombers.

* 26 November 1941, a RAF aircraft bombed the 1st Essex Regiment during Operation Crusader, causing about 40 casualties.

The fort was retaken by the New Zealand Division on 22 November 1941, during Operation Crusader.

Nevertheless, during Operation Crusader Matilda tanks of 1st and 32nd Army Tank Brigades were instrumental in the breakout from Tobruk and the capture of the Axis fortress of Bardia.

A captured Matilda put into use by the German forces, is recaptured and its crew taken prisoner by New Zealand troops, 3 December 1941 during the battle to open the corridor to Tobruk, Operation Crusader.

By the time of the battle of El Alamein ( October 1942 ), few Matildas were in service, with many having been lost during Operation Crusader and then the Gazala battles in early summer of 1942.

He won a programming contest in A + magazine during its first year of publishing with his game Cavern Crusader.

The Samaritan synagogue, built in 362 CE by the high priest Akbon and converted into a church by the Crusaders, was converted into al-Khadra Mosque in 1244 ; and two other Crusader churches became the an-Nasr Mosque and al-Masakim Mosque during that century.

In November 1941 during Operation Crusader, part of the North African Campaign, staff officers of the British Eighth Army were unable to find even a single example of the Boys knocking out a German tank.

The Crusader states were a number of mostly 12th-and 13th-century feudal states created by Western European crusaders in Asia Minor, Greece and the Holy Land, and during the Northern Crusades in the eastern Baltic area.

Known in Crusader times as Deirelcobebe, the ruins of the ancient Canaanite city of Lachish lay adjacent to the village, which was subject to extensive archaeological excavations by the British Mandatory authorities in Palestine, and by Israeli authorities subsequent to its capture during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Subsequently, the Druze chiefs of the Gharb placed their considerable military experience at the disposal of the Mamluk rulers of Egypt ( 1250 – 1516 ); first, to assist them in putting an end to what remained of Crusader rule in coastal Syria, and later to help them safeguard the Syrian coast against Crusader retaliation by sea.

A series of religiously-motivated military expeditions originally intended to liberate the Levant from Muslims, several Crusader States were founded in the eastern Mediterranean.

During his military career, he logged more than 3, 200 flight hours on the F-8 Crusader, more than any other pilot.

* 1198: The brethren of the Crusader hospital in Acre are raised to a military order of knights, the Teutonic Knights, formally known as the Order of the Knights of the Hospital of St. Mary of the Teutons in Jerusalem.

It became the headquarters of the dwindling Kingdom of Jerusalem, and the base of operations for any future military attempts by the Crusaders against the Egyptian Mamluks, who for their part were systematically conquering any last Crusader strongholds on the mainland.

As a part of Polish – British pre-World War II military cooperation, the patent was sold to Vickers-Armstrong for use in British tanks, including the Crusader, Churchill, Valentine, and Cromwell models.

A Crusader military campaign was launched on November 3, 1217, beginning with an offensive towards Transjordan.

However, even by the time of Anna Comnena, with the Emperor away on military campaigns for much of the time, this way of life had changed considerably, and after the Crusader occupation it virtually vanished.

As such, the Empire was able to raise a reasonably numerous military force of around 20, 000 soldiers at its height – numbers recorded as participating in its numerous wars against the Crusader states.

Despite its predominantly military character, the castle is one of the few sites where Crusader art ( in the form of frescoes ) has been preserved.

The Armenians developed close social, cultural, military, and religious ties with nearby Crusader States, but eventually succumbed to Mamluk invasions.

As Baibars had done previously, Qalawun entered into land control treaties with the remaining Crusader states, military orders and individual lords who wished to remain independent ; he recognized Tyre and Beirut as separate from the Kingdom of Jerusalem, now centered on Acre.

* Operation Crusader, a British attack in North African campaign in World War II

In an effort to demonstrate the Byzantine ideal of the emperor's role as the leader of the Christian world, John marched into Muslim Syria at the head of the combined forces of Byzantium and the Crusader states ; yet despite the great vigour with which he pressed the campaign, John's hopes were disappointed by the treachery of his Crusader allies, who deliberately failed to fight against their common Muslim enemies at the crucial moment.

The Crusader Princes were suspicious of each other and of John, and neither wanted the other to gain from participating in the campaign.

Sea Centurion was returned to its owners in 2002 and Sea Crusader in 2003, after performing cargo hauling duties for the campaign in Iraq.

Its also possible to play a campaign beginning with Crusader Kings, followed by Europa Universalis II, Victoria ( Or Victoria II ) and finished with Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday, allowing for campaigns to range from 1066 to 1954.

The Operation Crusader campaign was the most costly the New Zealand 2nd Division fought in the Second World War, with 879 men killed, and 1, 700 wounded.

Later in the campaign shipping was improved, Nuffields had put a engineering team in Egypt, and crews were better at preventing problems, but the reputation of the Crusader could not recover.

An Italian Army | Italian soldier surrenders to an Indian Jawan during the successful allied campaign of Operation Crusader.