Following Orders

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

FYI:

Starts March 12th on the History Channel (take special note of title and subject of episode 6)

http://www.history.com/content/warriors

[Femme Falchion]

that actually makes me wish we had cable!   

[Sir William Marcus]

Episode 6: Warrior Monks
Malta, 1565
The Knights of Saint Johns defend Malta from attacking Ottomans in one of history's greatest sieges--the Siege of Malta--the last battle of the Crusades.

I believe this is the first televised segment they have produced dedicated to the Hospitallers.

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

The National Geo channel had one on the Brothers in Black awhile back.

[Sir William Marcus]

Those bastages!  I never got the memo!

[Mikael of Aragon]

...I have to have one...   

[Lady Christina de Pond]

  you forgot something

God wills it and DEUS VULT

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

Bravo Lady ASHley!!!!!!!!

[Lady Christina de Pond]

 

[Sir William Marcus]

I have to have one...

I'm tellin ya brother. They don't get much nicer than that!

[Sir William Marcus]

Monday, March 2, 2009
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8-10pm -- The Crusades: Crescent & the Cross - #1.
The shadow of war between Christian and Muslim hangs over us today, but it is a war that began nearly a thousand years ago. By the close of the 11th century, Jerusalem had been in Muslim hands for over 400 years. In 1095 Pope Urban II launched an unprecedented military campaign to seize it back--a "Crusade" to purge the Holy Land of "the infidel". Over 60,000 Christian warriors would journey 3,000 miles and for almost three years to reclaim the Holy City in the name of God. But their adversaries, the Turkish warlords of the Middle East would resist them every step of the way. In a series of epic battles and bloody massacres, tens of thousands would die as the crusaders inched ever closer towards Jerusalem.

10-12am -- The Crusades: Crescent & the Cross - #2.
In 1099 the Crusaders took Jerusalem in the bloodiest of battles, wrenching it back from the Muslims for the first time in 400 years. But, over the decades that followed, the Islamic world dreamed of fighting back. In 1144 the Muslims seized the city of Edessa from the Christians. The news reverberated back to Europe, and the Pope called for a Second Crusade. But this Crusade was a disaster. It failed to expand the Christian empire, and strengthened the resolve of the Muslims. Under their great leader, Saladin, the Muslim swept through the Christian Kingdom taking town after town. In 1187 he took Jerusalem. This shocked the west into responding, with a Third Crusade. Led by Richard the Lionheart they defeated Saladin and marched on Jerusalem. Richard failed to take the city and the Third Crusade failed.

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

Luckily I can watch my disk set, due to their poor airing times for part II. 

[Sir William Marcus]

Luckily I can watch my disk set, due to their poor airing times for part II. 

Aye..me too.  Besides, NO commercials!

[Lady Christina de Pond]

why sir william you have gone irish on us.

[Sir William Marcus]

why sir william you have gone irish on us.

Why yes sister ASHley. It is that time of year.