During the next several months the other Crusader armies arrived.

He started to raise and equip a new crusader army.

He felt that the Crusader army was invincible in a straight fight.

Many of the villagers also joined the Crusader army.

This split the Crusader army into two factions, neither of which was strong enough to achieve its objective.

The four main crusader armies left Europe around the appointed time in August 1096.

Meanwhile the leaving crusader army had been detained in Dünamünde by a contrary wind.

Reinforcing a Crusader army was difficult at best.

By 1201 the bulk of the crusader army was collected at Venice, though with far fewer troops than expected: 12,000 instead of 33,500.

The Crusader armies were made up of many different nationalities bound only by faith in the same God.