What a fool-on a crusade that ultimately benefited nobody but his Spanish cousin. No planning, poor execution and did absolutely nothing but drain his country to pay ransoms for the aristocracy captured by the Moroccans and left thousands of the poor either dead or sold into slavery.
"In every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered..."
- Tacitus, Germania
"One must work in solitude as a man who opens a clearing in virgin forest, sustained by the unique hope that somewhere in its depths, others are working to the same end."
- Ernst Jünger
"I find that I must go handsomely, whatever it costs me, and the charge will be made up in the fruit it brings."
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Hail the sleeping king!
What a fool-on a crusade that ultimately benefited nobody but his Spanish cousin. No planning, poor execution and did absolutely nothing but drain his country to pay ransoms for the aristocracy captured by the Moroccans and left thousands of the poor either dead or sold into slavery.
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