Did the second crusade attempt too much
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- Did the Second Crusade fail because it attempted too much?
- Baltic crusade and Lisbon
- attempted too much
- original aim to get back Edessa
- Zengi took it's walls
- did not help the crusade
- Bernard wanted Conrad to join
- distract man power
- Change in ideology
- any infidel= penance
- Lisbon to attract man power
- Danish needed promise of booty
- none in East
- original aim to get back Edessa
- other factors
- ambiguous aims
- no one knew aim
- recruit Conrad
- penance from any infidel
- no one continued East
- Lisbon promised booty
- Danish want booty
- East= no promise
- ambiguous aims
- attempted too much
- Anatolia
- Attempted too much
- Conrad did not wait for Louis
- small army
- massacred at Dorylaeum
- Louis did not take coastal route
- no supplies
- Germans did not take Byzantine advice
- Manuel= still give supplies
- French= diplomatic
- gives town back to Greeks= homage
- Conrad did not wait for Louis
- other factors
- Louis= Greek escort
- army still wiped out
- Louis left
- not enough ships for whole army
- no supplies
- army still wiped out
- Manuel signs contract
- Muslim Sultans
- does not trust Westerners
- Louis= Greek escort
- Attempted too much
- Damascus
- attempted too much
- Damascus not best choice
- Damascus was an ally
- Aleppo or Ascalon
- Bernard's penance
- lack of man power
- lack of siege engines
- Zengi obsessed with Damascus
- religiously important
- Damascus not best choice
- other factors
- Eastern Franks blamed Western for move East
- Crusaders tactic
- could not surround city
- United Muslim force
- Zengi
- Factions
- Louis V Raymond
- Baldwin III V Melisende
- attempted too much
- Baltic crusade and Lisbon
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