Did WW1 Anglos really see themselves as crusaders?

Did WW1 Anglos really see themselves as crusaders?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yes. All the belligerents in WW1 did.
    Philip Jenkins "The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade"

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Not OP but thanks for the book anon.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not really

    Sporadic fighting continued in the hills surrounding Jerusalem.[149] On Christmas Day, Falkenhayn launched another counter assault, which was repulsed with heavy losses.[149] Some British newspapers and magazines, including The Irish News, claimed it as the end of the crusades.[150] A US newspaper also made reference to the Crusades, specifically the New York Herald (see picture), referring to the last time Jerusalem was under non-Muslim rule in 1244 AD when a Turkic army under Al-Salih Ayyub, defeated the Franks. The secular groups of the Italian politics characterized the victory as a crusade but giving secular and contemporary meanings to this term: The military episode was considered part of the Entente's crusade in the name of freedom and civilization against the cruelty of the German "Kultur", a widely spread image of the Great War propaganda based on the demonization of the enemy.[151] With different approaches, the Italian Catholic clergy and laity appeared generally reluctant to explicitly use of the ideology of crusade due to theological and doctrinal reasons: the conquest of Jerusalem was part of the just war conducted by the Entente, but it could not be considered like a step or the conclusion of a crusade.[152]

    Britain would hold Jerusalem until the end of Mandatory Palestine in 1948.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The English saw themselves as Crusaders, the French as Napoleonic Regulars, the Germans as Teutonic Knights, the Italians as Roman Legions, the Austrians as Holy Roman Landsknechts, the Russians as Novgorodian Bogatyrs, the Greeks and Serbs as Byzantines, the Bulgarians as Bulgars, the Ottomans as Seljuk Ghazis, Arab rebels as Mamluks, the Japanese as Samurai, and the Americans as Cowboys. This was the period of romantic nationalism, where stereotypes were taken as compliments.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yes

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Only for them to hand it over to the israelites for free.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Nah, the guy in your pic wasn't larping as a crusader. He always emphasized that his only enemy was the Ottoman Empire and not Islam.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No

    When the British owned the middle east they went to great lengths to make sure it wasn't seen as a crusader larp.

    The French however, were eager to do a crusade larp.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The soliders? No.
    The propaganda machine back home? No, but they pushed the idea.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      There are plenty of accounts from Brit soldiers of being excited to be taking back the holy lands and constantinople.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No, there's not. There's secondhand accounts made up by journalists that say that.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          meds

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    they were freeing the middle east of the dirty ottomans so probably

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      wonder how it felt as the ottomans to be a dying empire for years so much so that people mock you for it only to see one last mogging on the horizon by the Europeans who will finally win after centuries of cultural and physical conflict. But until istabul becomes Constantinople again they havent truly lost

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >only to see one last mogging on the horizon by the Europeans who will finally win after centuries of cultural and physical conflict
        Was Gallipoli a mogging? And how could the turks be mogged if Hagia Sophia remains a great Mosque?

        Only thing angloids can claim is founding Israel. Kek

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Implying Gallipoli was the only front the Ottomans fought on
          They don't teach kids about the Arab revolt these days? It's somewhat of a big deal

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Was it really the last crusade?

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >First Crusade
    >Anglos

    Lmao at whoever made that pic

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >First crusade
      >Picture clearly says 1189, almost 100 years after the First Crusade
      morons missing the mark spectacularly is the funniest part of this board lmao

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