Crusade (disambiguation)

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The Crusades were wars instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends, a ‘holy war’; applied esp. to expeditions undertaken under papal sanction against infidels or heretics. Particularly, military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims.^[1]

Crusade(s) may also refer to:

Political and cultural

• Campus Crusade for Christ, an American interdenominational Christian mission organization
• WHAS Crusade for Children, an annual telethon broadcast in Louisville, Kentucky
• Children's Crusade, a mixture of fiction, myth and fact concerning events in 1212
• Children's Crusade (civil rights), was a 1963 Civil Rights march in Alabama.
• Crusade of Romanianism, a Romanian fascist party
• Crusade, The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War, a non-fictional account of the 1990–1991 Persian Gulf War by Rick Atkinson

Entertainment

Comics

• The Crusades (comics), a series of American comic books
• Crusade (comics), a Franco-Belgian comics series

Film

• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, a 1989 adventure film
• The Crusades (film), a 1935 film directed by Cecil B. DeMille
• The Crusaders (film), a 2001 two-part Italian television mini-series directed by Dominique Othenin-Girard

Games

• Wing Commander: The Secret Missions 2: Crusade, a computer game expansion pack
• Darkness Falls: The Crusade, a 1999 internet MUD
• Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade, a 2004 videogame
• Space Crusade, a boardgame set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Dark Crusade, a computer game expansion pack
• World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, a 2007 computer game expansion pack
• Great Crusade, an episode in Warhammer 40,000 fictional history

Music

• Crusade (album), a 1967 blues album by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers
• The Crusade (album), a 2006 album by Trivium
• "Crusades", a song by August Burns Red from the 2009 album Constellations
• Crusade Records, an independent record label based in Sydney, Australia

Television

• Crusade (TV series), an American science fiction spinoff from Babylon 5
• Crusader (TV series), an American drama series from 1955 to 1956, starring [Brian Keith
• The Crusade (Doctor Who), four episode serial from Doctor Who
• "Crusade" (Stargate SG-1), an episode from the science fiction TV series
• Crusades (BBC TV series), a British television series hosted by Terry Jones

Novels

• Crusade (Young novel), a 2007 novel by Robyn Young
• Crusade (Starfire), a 1992 novel by David Weber and Steve White
• The Crusade, novelization of the TV serial Doctor Who
• Crusade (Laird novel), a 2007 historical novel by Elizabeth Laird
• Crusade (short story), a 1968 Arthur C. Clarke short story
• Crusade, a 2003 novel from the Aquasilva Trilogy by Anselm Audley
• Crusade (Destroyermen novel), the second book of the Destroyermen series
• Crusade (Forgotten Realms novel), a novel by James Lowder
• Crusade, a young-adult series by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguié

See also

• Crusader (disambiguation)

References