The_king
12-23-2002, 06:50 AM
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat0.htm
James Trager, The People's Chronology (1992)
1099: Crusaders slaughter 40,000 inhabs of Jerusalem. Dis/starv reduced Crusaders from 300,000 to 60,000.
1147: 2nd Crusades begins with 500,000. "Most" lost to starv./disease/battle.
1190: 500 Jews massacred in York.
1192: 3rd Crusade reduced from 100,000 to 5,000 through famine, plagues and desertions in campaign vs Antioch.
1212: Children's Crusade loses some 50,000.
TOTAL: Just in these incidents, it appears the Europeans lost around 650,000.
TOTAL: When I take all the individual death tolls listed here, weed out the duplicates, fill in the blanks, apply Occam, etc. I get a very rough total of 1½ M deaths in the Crusades.
So if you take out the childrens' crusade, that means 900 000 moslem deaths, and 600 000 christian.
http://vityaz-master.com/osprey/scans/maa-155/2.html
The final attack on the Hospitallers' stronghold was launched in 1522 by the sultan Suleiman. The Order's Grand Master, Villiers do l'Isle Adam, had 600 Hospitallers and about 4,500 local auxiliaries against a Turkish army of some 100,000 men. However, Rhodes was one of the greatest fortresses in the world, equipped with excellent artillery batteries, and it took Suleiman two months of siege operations to effect a breach in the walls at the weakest point - the landward side, garrisoned by the Langues of Aragon and England. Over the next three weeks three major assaults were made on the breach by fanatical Moslem troops, exhibiting a religious fervour to match that which had enabled the Christian crusaders to conquer the Holy Eand nearly 300 years earlier. All three assaults were beaten off, though not without considerable loss to the garrison. Suleiman now dismissed his com- mander and appointed in his place an engineer. Costly assaults were replaced by a war of attrition, with the island sealed off from reinforcements and supplies by a complete blockade. By 20 December 1522 the Hospitallers were faced with two alternatives: total extermination, or surrender. Suleiman's terms were generous, and were accep- ted. After 200 years the Order was again homeless.
On 15 July 1565 a general assault was launched by land and sea. It very nearly succeeded. A breach was created by mining on 7 August, and again the Turks came dangerously close to success. On the 19th and 23rd two more great assaults were launched, but by now the Hospitallers had repaired the breaches, and both assaults were beaten off. On 7 September a Spanish army arrived to relieve the garrison; the dispirited Turkish army was allowed to embark and sail away unmolested, having suffered some 24,000 casualties. The Hospitallers had lost 240 knights and some 6,000 other troops.
James Trager, The People's Chronology (1992)
1099: Crusaders slaughter 40,000 inhabs of Jerusalem. Dis/starv reduced Crusaders from 300,000 to 60,000.
1147: 2nd Crusades begins with 500,000. "Most" lost to starv./disease/battle.
1190: 500 Jews massacred in York.
1192: 3rd Crusade reduced from 100,000 to 5,000 through famine, plagues and desertions in campaign vs Antioch.
1212: Children's Crusade loses some 50,000.
TOTAL: Just in these incidents, it appears the Europeans lost around 650,000.
TOTAL: When I take all the individual death tolls listed here, weed out the duplicates, fill in the blanks, apply Occam, etc. I get a very rough total of 1½ M deaths in the Crusades.
So if you take out the childrens' crusade, that means 900 000 moslem deaths, and 600 000 christian.
http://vityaz-master.com/osprey/scans/maa-155/2.html
The final attack on the Hospitallers' stronghold was launched in 1522 by the sultan Suleiman. The Order's Grand Master, Villiers do l'Isle Adam, had 600 Hospitallers and about 4,500 local auxiliaries against a Turkish army of some 100,000 men. However, Rhodes was one of the greatest fortresses in the world, equipped with excellent artillery batteries, and it took Suleiman two months of siege operations to effect a breach in the walls at the weakest point - the landward side, garrisoned by the Langues of Aragon and England. Over the next three weeks three major assaults were made on the breach by fanatical Moslem troops, exhibiting a religious fervour to match that which had enabled the Christian crusaders to conquer the Holy Eand nearly 300 years earlier. All three assaults were beaten off, though not without considerable loss to the garrison. Suleiman now dismissed his com- mander and appointed in his place an engineer. Costly assaults were replaced by a war of attrition, with the island sealed off from reinforcements and supplies by a complete blockade. By 20 December 1522 the Hospitallers were faced with two alternatives: total extermination, or surrender. Suleiman's terms were generous, and were accep- ted. After 200 years the Order was again homeless.
On 15 July 1565 a general assault was launched by land and sea. It very nearly succeeded. A breach was created by mining on 7 August, and again the Turks came dangerously close to success. On the 19th and 23rd two more great assaults were launched, but by now the Hospitallers had repaired the breaches, and both assaults were beaten off. On 7 September a Spanish army arrived to relieve the garrison; the dispirited Turkish army was allowed to embark and sail away unmolested, having suffered some 24,000 casualties. The Hospitallers had lost 240 knights and some 6,000 other troops.