"The stated aim of the Crusades was to cast the heathens out of...

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    "The stated aim of the Crusades was to cast the heathens out of the holy city of Jerusalem and make it clean."

    There is an irony in this.

    Given the European standards of personal hygiene of the time, it was said that locals could smell an approaching Crusader army long before it arrived.
 
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