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Children's Crusade (other)
The Children's Crusade was a crusade to convert Muslims in the Holy Land in the year 1212. Children's Crusade may also refer to: History *Children's Crusade 1212 *Children's Crusade (1903), a march led by Mother Jones in 1903 *Children's Crusade (1944), the latter half of the Lapland War, a sub-theater of World War II *Children's Crusade (1963), a march led by James Bevel in 1963, during the American Civil Rights Movement Literature *The Children's Crusade (comics), "The Children's Crusade" (comics), a 1993–1994 story arc in DC Comics' Vertigo imprint *''Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death'', a 1969 novel by Kurt Vonnegut *''Avengers: The Children's Crusade'', a 2010 storyline in Marvel Comics' Young Avengers *''The Children's Crusade'', a short story in Michael Cunningham's ''Specimen Days'' *''The Children's Crusade'', a short novel by Rebecca Brown (author), Rebecca Brown *"The Children's Crusade", a short story by Robin Wayne Bailey in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Crusade
The Children's Crusade was a failed Popular crusades, popular crusade by European Christians to establish a second Latin Church, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Holy Land in the early 13th century. Some sources have narrowed the date to 1212. Although it is called the ''Children's Crusade'', it never received the papal approval from Pope Innocent III to be an actual crusade. The traditional narrative is likely conflated from a mix of historical and mythical events, including the preaching of visions by a French boy and a German boy, an intention to peacefully convert Muslims in the Holy Land to Christianity, bands of children marching to Italy, and children being sold into slavery in Tunis. The crusaders of the real events on which the story is based left areas of Germany, led by Nicholas of Cologne, and Northern France, led by Stephen of Cloyes. Accounts Traditional accounts There are a number of traditional stories of the Children's Crusade which share similar facts. A boy b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Crusade (1903)
Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an Irish-born American labor organizer, former schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes, secure bans on child labor, and co-founded the Labor unionist trade union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). After Jones's husband and four children all died of yellow fever in 1867 and her dress shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, she became an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers union. In 1902, she was called "the most dangerous woman in America" for her success in organizing miners and their families against the mine owners. In 1903, to protest the lax enforcement of the child labor laws in the Pennsylvania mines and silk mills, she organized a children's march from Philadelphia to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt in N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Crusade (1944)
During World War II, the Lapland War (; ; ) saw fighting between Finland and Nazi Germany – effectively from September to November 1944 – in Finland's northernmost region, Lapland. Though the Finns and the Germans had been fighting together against the Soviet Union since 1941 during the Continuation War (1941–1944), peace negotiations between the Finnish government and the Allies of World War II had been conducted intermittently during 1943–1944, but no agreement had been reached. The Moscow Armistice, signed on 19 September 1944, demanded that Finland break diplomatic ties with Germany and expel or disarm any German soldiers remaining in Finland. The ''Wehrmacht'' had anticipated this turn of events and planned an organised withdrawal to Nazi-occupied Norway, as part of Operation Birke (Birch). Despite a failed offensive landing operation by Germany in the Gulf of Finland, the evacuation proceeded peacefully at first. The Finns escalated the situation into warfare on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
