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The Crusaders in the Red Sea and the Sudan*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Douglas Newbold
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It is said that truth is stranger than fiction. The history of the Middle Ages is largely one of romance; and of all the medieval episodes, the story of the crusades is perhaps the most romantic; and of all crusading ventures the most fantastic and least known is the amphibious attack on the holy cities of Islam, Mecca and El Medina, by the famous French crusader, the prince of Antioch and lord of Transjordan, Renaud de Chatillon. To us in the Sudan Renaud's raid down the Red Sea is particularly interesting, as the crusaders actually landed in the Sudan and dominated both the Sudanese and Arabian coasts of the Red Sea for many months.

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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 20 , Issue 80 , December 1946 , pp. 176 - 185
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1946

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References

1 II Kings XIV, 7. ‘He (Jehoash) slew of Edom in the Valley of Salt 10,000 and took Sela by war and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day’.

Isaiah XVI, I. ‘Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the Wilderness’.

2 Isaiah xv, I. ‘The burden of Moab . . . because in the night Kir of hloab is laid waste’.

3 See also I Kings IX, 24, and Numbers XXXIII.

4 Scene of the Desert Yeomanry charge against the Turks 15 November 1917.

5 Ibelin is Yebna north of Gaza.

6 And some, though without riveted links, is still being made in Omdurman.—Editor of S.N. and R.