Crusader

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Crusader may refer to:

Military

• Crusader, a participant in one of the Crusades. See Category:People of the Crusades and List of principal Crusaders
• Crusader states, states set up by the Europeans in the Balkans and the Middle East during The Crusades
• Crusader tank, a British cruiser tank of World War II
• HMS Crusader, three British naval ships
• Operation Crusader, a British attack in North African campaign in World War II
• VMFA-122 Crusaders, a United States Marine Corps fixed wing fighter-attack squadron 122
• XM2001 Crusader, an American self-propelled artillery project
• Crusaders (guerrilla), a Croatian anti-communist guerrilla army

Transportation

• Crusader (speedboat), the jet speedboat in which John Cobb died
• Crusader (train), a streamlined train which operated between 1937 and 1981
• Crusader, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive that was built for and ran on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
• Crusader ambulance (original version named Crusader 900), a type of emergency ambulance in widespread use in the United Kingdom, originally developed by the St John Ambulance Brigade

Aircraft

• F-8 Crusader, a U.S. Navy fighter jet
• XF8U-3 Crusader III, an experimental fighter intended to replace the F-8 and compete with the F-4 Phantom II
• Short Crusader, a racing seaplane built by Short Brothers
• American Gyro AG-4 Crusader an aircraft built by the Crusader Aircraft Corporation
• Cessna T303 Crusader

Comics

• Crusader (Marvel Comics), two different fictional characters in Marvel Comics
• Crusaders (DC Comics), a name used by a team of DC Comics superheroes
• Crusaders (Marvel Comics), a name by a similar team from Marvel Comics
• Crusader X, an alternate version of Captain Britain
• Mighty Crusaders, an Archie comics superhero team, later licensed by DC Comics and relaunched as "The Crusaders" on the Imprint label
• The Southern Knights were originally called the Crusaders in their first issue but had to change their name due to Archie Comics' Mighty Crusaders
• Crusader, an alias used by a character claiming to be Marvel Boy
• The Caped Crusader, an epithet for Batman

Games

• Crusader (game series), a 1995 action computer game series
• Crusader (Dungeons & Dragons), a Dungeons & Dragons character class
• Crusader: Adventure Out of Time, a 1997 video game
• Crusader Kings (video game), a 2004 strategy computer game
• Stronghold: Crusader, a 2001 computer strategy game

Media

• The Crusader (newspaper), an official organ of The Knights Party (Knights of the Ku Klux Klan)

Novels

• The Crusaders, a 1948 bestseller by Stefan Heym

Louisa Stanhope

• The Crusaders. An Historical Romance, of the Twelfth Century, an 1820 novel by Louisa Stanhope
• Crusader (Sara Douglass novel), a 1999 fantasy novel by Sara Douglass
• Crusader (Bloor novel), a 1999 novel by Edward Bloor

Film and television

• The Crusaders (1918 film), a 1918 Italian film
• The Crusaders (2001 film), a 2001 Italian television mini-series
• Crusader (film), a 2005 TV movie starring Bo Derek and Andrew McCarthy
• "Crusaders" (original name Krzyżacy means "crusaders"), a Polish film released as Knights of the Teutonic Order
• The Crusader (1932 film), a 1932 film starring Evelyn Brent
• The Crusader (2007 film), a 2007 direct-to-DVD motion picture
• Crusader (TV series), a 1955–1956 adventure/drama television series starring Brian Keith
• Crusade (TV series), a short-lived 1999 science fiction television series and spin-off to Babylon 5
• Crusader Rabbit, an animated television series

Music

Albums

• Crusader (Chris de Burgh album) released in 1979
• Crusader (Saxon album) released in 1984
• The Crusader (album), the 2003 debut album by New Zealand rapper Scribe

Groups

• The Crusaders, a jazz and R&B group popular in the 1970s
• The Crusaders (1960s garage band), a 1960s garage band who released first Gospel rock record
• Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, a Drum Corps International division I marching band
• Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, a DCI Open Class drum corps
• The Crusaders, Neil Christian's backing group

Sport clubs

Athletics

• Holy Cross Crusaders, the athletics teams of College of the Holy Cross
• Canisius Crusaders, the athletics teams of Canisius High School, Buffalo, NY
• Belmont Abbey College Crusaders, the athletic teams of Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, North Carolina
• North Greenville Crusaders, the athletic teams of North Greenville University, Tigerville, South Carolina
• Crusaders, the athletics teams of Chicago's Brother Rice High School

Rugby

• Crusaders Rugby League, a defunct Welsh rugby league club, formerly the Celtic Crusaders
  • North Wales Crusaders, Phoenix club of the above
• Crusaders (rugby union), a rugby union team from New Zealand, formerly the Canterbury Crusaders
• Western Crusaders, a rugby union team from Fiji
• London Broncos, an English rugby league club once known as London Crusaders

Cricket

• Kandy Crusaders, a Sri Lankan domestic T20 cricket team

Football

• Crusaders F.C., an association football team from Northern Ireland
• Valparaiso Crusaders, the sports teams of Valparaiso University
• Crusaders, the sports teams of the University of Dallas
• Crusaders, the sports teams of Pensacola Catholic High School
• Carlstad Crusaders, an American football team from Sweden

Other uses

• Crusader (horse) (1923–1940), United States racehorse
• The Crusaders' Union, now Urban Saints, a British interdenominational group founded by Albert Kestin
• The Crusaders (repeal of alcohol prohibition), a group that promoted repeal of national alcohol prohibition in the U.S.
• The Crusader (sculpture), a 1931 Lorado Taft sculpture in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery

See also

• Crusade (disambiguation)