History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 189, the Baltic, the Baltic Crusades, meet the bolts.

Hello again and welcome to a whole new series of the Crusades.

Yes, it's time to leave sunny southern France,

put on our coats and woolly hats,

and head north to investigate a series of military campaigns which occurred

predominantly in the Baltic states. Now before we start on the introduction to the

Baltic Crusades I'd like to remind you that this

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Right, where were we? Ah, that's right, the Baltic Crusades.

Okay, to start with, we should try and work out where we are headed.

If you decided to launch yourself off the East Coast of England into the North Sea and if you then kept sailing in an easterly direction

you would eventually bump into the country of Denmark which is located on a peninsula which juts out from the continent of Europe.

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