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Lordganon wrote: True about the timing, but the numbers are so far apart, it is not even funny. Can't even say that they are much more poorly armed or equipped - the difference is minute.

Remember, the only crusades that worked were those where the numbers were far more even than that, with divided Muslims. Here, not the case. IIRC, more French and a ton of English were due to arrive. By the way, what source do you have for the 500,000 claim? That's exceedingly unlikely.

Most of the Crusades flounded due to really crap luck and decisions, with the death of Barbarossa in the Third being the most notable in my mind.