Fourth Crusade

/fɔrθ kruˌseɪd/
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Definitions of Fourth Crusade
  1. noun
    a Crusade from 1202 to 1204 that was diverted into a battle for Constantinople and failed to recapture Jerusalem
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    any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims
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