important moments

By sk8er1231
  • Mar 30, 1096

    first crusade

    it was launched in 1096 by pope urban 2 with the primary goal of responding to an appeal from Byzantine emperor, who requested that western volunteer come to his and help to repel the invading seljuq turks from antolia.
  • Mar 30, 1145

    2nd crusader

    the second major crusade launched from europe. the second crusade was started in responde to the fall of the county of edessa the previous year.
  • Oct 2, 1187

    saladin retakes the city of jerusalen

    the muslin general captured the holy city.
  • Apr 4, 1189

    3rd crusade

    was an attempt by the europe leaders to requonquer the holy land from saladin.
  • Mar 30, 1291

    massacre at acre

    took place in 1291 and resulted in the loss of the crusaders-controlled of the city of acre to the muslins.
  • Apr 4, 1453

    turks capture constan tinople

    was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine empire,which occured after asiege by the ottoman empire.

  • battle of algiers

    he Battle of Algiers was a campaign of guerrilla warfare carried out by the National Liberation Front (FLN) against the French Algerian authorities in 1957. The conflict began as a series of hit-and-run attacks by the FLN against the French Police in Algiers

  • 1st gulf war

    The Persian Gulf War (August 2, 1990 – February 28, 1991), commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from thirty-four nations led by the United States, against Iraq.

  • 9/11

    The September 11 attacks, often referred to as September 11th or 9/11 (pronounced as "nine eleven"), were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners

  • operation iraqi freedom

    The Iraq War or War in Iraq, also referred to as the Second Gulf War or Operation Iraqi Freedom,[49] was a military campaign that began on March 20, 2003,[50][51] with the invasion of Iraq by a multinational force led by troops from the United States under the administration of President George W. Bush and the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Tony Blair.[52]

  • suez canal incident

    The incident happened as the Global Patriot waited to cross the Suez Canal from the Red Sea to the Gulf with its cargo of used US military equipment from Dubai