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SECOND CRUSADE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Crusade from 1145 to 1147 that failed because of internal disagreements among the crusaders and led to the loss of Jerusalem in 1187
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
Crusade (any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims)