History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 293, the Baltic Crusades, the Samagetian Crusade Part 25, the end of the summer Jetsian Crusade.

Hello again.

Last week we saw the Teutonic Order throw everything at V. Tortoise

as it attempted to defeat him and take Samagetia and Lithuania for itself.

A massive crusader force invaded Lithuania and attempted to take Vilnius, but the army was eventually forced to retreat after the city proved quite tricky to defeat. The Crusader

invasion and the second siege of Vilnius didn't end up scoring the Teutonic Order any territorial gains against Vitortis, but it did cause

both Vitortis and the Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order to ponder the reality of the situation they now found themselves in.

Vitortis had to

the resources and ability to send wave after wave of

of crusader invasions into the territory under his control and these forces were effective and skilled enough

to have blocked V tortoises march into Vilnius even though. Tortoise's army was as much as ten times as large as the

Crusader force.

On the other side of the fence, the Teutonic Order was forced to face the fact that despite having

raised the largest Crusader army in the history of the Order, the Order wasn't able to achieve an awful lot with this Army.

Vittortis seemed to be able to draw upon a seemingly endless supply of Lithuanian, Polish and Russian fighters

to defend his territory and taking Vilnius, the city which the order would need to secure to defeat Vitortis, looked like it might be a conquest beyond the abilities of the Teutonic Forces.

So all of these sobering facts were leading both V tortoise and the Teutonic order to consider

embarking on peace negotiations.

The Teutonic order had another two factors against it,

which were also increasing the pressure to find a peaceful means of ending their dispute with Vy tortoise,

those two factors being pressure from Rome and from the Holy Roman Emperor.

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