4 How the Crusades Could Have Been Won: King Baldwin II of Jerusalem’s Campaigns against Aleppo (1124–5) and Damascus (1129)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations and Tables vi
4. 1 Military Games and the Training of the Infantry 1
5. 2 The Battle of Civitate: A Plausible Account 25
6. 3 The Square “Fighting March” of the Crusaders at the Battle of Ascalon (1099) 57
7. 4 How the Crusades Could Have Been Won: King Baldwin II of Jerusalem’s Campaigns against Aleppo (1124–5) and Damascus (1129) 73
8. 5 Saint Catherine’s Day Miracle – the Battle of Montgisard 95
9. 6 The Military Effectiveness of Alan Mercenaries in Byzantium, 1301–1306 107
10. 7 Winning and Recalling Honor in Spain: Pro-English Poetry in Celebration of the Battle of Nájera (1367) 133
11. 8 The Wars and the Army of the Duke of Cephalonia Carlo I Tocco (c. 1375–1429) 167
12. 9 Sir John Radcliffe, K.G. (d. 1441): Miles Famossissimus 183
13. 10 Defense Schemes of Southampton in the Late Medieval Period, 1300–1500 215
14. 11 French and English Acceptance of Medieval Gunpowder Weaponry 259