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cap scheme. But it then went and succeeded. Those who failed to go were mocked in the streets and even threatened with excommunication by the Pope. It seems the memory of this was still strong as ten’s of thousands of men signed up. For all those going from the


north of Europe, Dartmouth was, by now, the most natural point to assemble.


164 ships gathered there in 1147 to join the Crusade. According to the Chroniclers of the time, the force numbered 13,000 men. Or more than twice the population of Dartmouth today. However many people were


wrestle Lisbon back from a Muslim army. They agreed and the siege they lay to the city resulted in the ‘Moors’ surrender in October of that year. It was the only success of the


Crusade. Two armies had set out on the


Crusade, one under the French King Louis VII and one under the command of Conrad III of Germany. Both armies were defeated by a


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gathered in the harbour, it shows not only how important the crusade was but also how important Dartmouth was as a port. That number of ships gathering here meant it became well known internationally and that it had the people and infrastructure to support a great fleet. The fleet left in May 1147. It had an inauspicious


start as bad weather forced it into harbour in Portugal. There the King, Afonso, asked the knights to help him


well-organised army of Turks, and then tried to lay siege unsuccessfully to Damascus and Jerusalem. To say the attempt to retake the Holy Land was a shambles is an understatement of huge proportions. Its failure lay the foundations for


the third Crusade in 1190 to which Dartmouth also sent 34 ships. So we can take pride in Dartmouth’s importance as a


port at the time tinged perhaps by embarrassment at the complete failure of the expedition it supported.


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