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The Tower of David in 1911 (moat, main gate, tower)

Mt. Silpius with ruins of the citadel, Antioch

The Siege of Antioch (Detail of a medieval miniature from Sébastien Mamerot's Les Passages d'Outremer (1473–1474)

A 12th century painting of crusader cannibalism

A medieval siege tower or belfry (drawing by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, 1856)

A reconstructed trebuchet, Château de Castelnaud, Dordogne, France.

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

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

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

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

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