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Children's Crusade

Crusade by some 10,000 children from France, the Low Countries, and Germany, in 1212, to recapture Jerusalem for Christianity. Motivated by religious piety, many of them were sold into slavery or died of disease.
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According to the History Learning Site, maintained by teacher Christopher Trueman of Sackville School in East Grinstead, England, 12-year-old Stephen of Cloyes traveled through France and gathered an army of some 30,000 children to retake Jerusalem, as the adult Crusades had failed to do.
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