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1204. Of the whole gang there was one leader,this leader was followed by a lot of children.The name of the leader was Stephen of Cloyes.He led these kids, who were around 7-8 years old, to fight to save Jerusalem. Although many people didn’t agree with the children's decision to fight, no one stopped them from taking back Jerusalem.Many children died because of exhaustion, and many people believed that the expedition was doomed from the beginning because the pope had not blessed them on their mission. The reason the children went on this crusade was to build hope backup for christians. Crusades had come before them, and all of them failed or given up. The children took it upon themselves to be ‘’heroes’’ and didn’t do much better than the adults. The children never came back. Either they died or boarded seven boats in Marseilles and that was the last anything was heard of them.
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