Dickinson College Commentaries

Taking of the fortress of Maarat, by Henri Decaisne (1843) Chateau de Versailles: Les Collections

a painting of the attack on Marra

The Siege of Nicaea, 1097 CE (map by Gabriel Moss)

map showing the siege of Nicaea

The march from Antioch to Jerusalem, 1099 CE (Map by Gabriel Moss)

map of the route from Antioch to Jerusalem

The thirst suffered by the first Crusaders (1852), by Alessandro Guardassoni (Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Inv. 645

19th century picture of crusaders suffering from thirst

The capture of Antioch

medieval illumination of the capture of Antioch

The Capture of Antioch by Bohmond of Tarento, June 1098 (painting by L. Gaillat, 1840)

a painting with Bohemond capturing Antioch

The Orontes River (now the Far) near Antioch (now Antakya)

the river near Antioch (modern Antakya)

3rd century graffito of a cataphract (clibanarius), from Dura-Europus (Yale University Art Gallery)

a graffito of a mounted armored warrior

a cataphract; Persian cavalryman in plate armor (6th century)

relief sculpture with Sassanian mounted cavalryman

The Siege of Nicaea: the Crusaders firing heads into the city (anonymous manuscript illumination, 13th century

manuscript illumination with crusaders firing Turkish heads into the city