Crusade (disambiguation)

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A crusade was one of a series of religious wars fought between Roman Catholics, sometimes in alliance with Eastern Christian polities (mainly Byzantium and the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia), and Muslim polities or other enemies.

The word "crusade" is also used vernacularly to signify any struggle for a worthy cause, a meaning that is extruded from the memory of the historical Crusades as seen from the perspective of the Christian partisans. The vernacular is also sometimes used sarcastically, or even as a term of opprobium

Crusade(s) or crusader(s) may also refer to:

Contents 1 Military 2 Political and cultural 3 Entertainment 4 Sport

[edit] Military

• Northern Crusades, campaigns undertaken by the Catholic kings of Europe against the pagan peoples of Northern Europe
• HMS Crusader, three British naval ships
• XM2001 Crusader, a planned American mobile land weapon, cancelled in 2002
• Crusader tank, a British cruiser tank of World War II
• Operation Crusader, the British attack that relieved the Siege of Tobruk
• F-8 Crusader, an American carrier-based jet fighter
• XF8U-3 Crusader III, an American experimental fighter that was intended to replace the F-8
• VMFA-122 or The Crusaders, American Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 122
• Albigensian Crusade, or the Cathar Crusade a campaign to destroy Christian Heresy in Southern France and Northern Spain, related to the Medieval Inquisition

[edit] Political and cultural

• Crusader states, states set up by the Europeans in the Middle East during The Crusades
• Tenth Crusade, a rhetorical device that builds an analogy between the American-led "War on Terror" and the historical Crusades
• The New Crusade:America's War on Terrorism, a book by Rahul Mahajan on American policy following 9/11
• Crusaders Christian Youth Movement, a British interdenominational group
• The Crusaders (repeal of alcohol prohibition), an organisation against prohibition in America
• Campus Crusade for Christ, an American interdenominational Christian mission organization
• WHAS Crusade for Children, an annual telethon broadcast in Louisville, Kentucky
• Children's Crusade, a mixture of fiction, myth and fact concerning events in 1212
• Crusade, The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War, a non-fictional account of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War by American Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Atkinson

[edit] Entertainment

Comics

• Caped Crusader, an epithet used for Batman, a comic book superhero
• Mighty Crusaders, an Archie comics superhero team
• Crusaders (DC/Marvel), two groups of superheroes created by DC Comics and Marvel Comics
• Crusader (Marvel Comics), a fictional character created by Marvel Comics
• The Crusades (comics), a series of American comic books
• The Infinity Crusade, a fictional conflict over cosmic cubes in Marvel Comics

Film

• Crusader (film), a 2004 TV-movie starring Andrew McCarthy
• The Crusaders (film), a 2001 Italian television mini-series
• The Crusader (film) a 2007 movie
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, a 1989 adventure film
• The Crusades (film), a 1935 film directed by Cecil B. DeMille

Games

• Crusader (game series), an action computer game series
• Crusader: Adventure Out of Time, a video game
• Crusader Kings (computer game), a strategy computer game
• Stronghold: Crusader, a 2001 computer strategy game
• Crusader (Dungeons & Dragons), a character class in Dungeons & Dragons
• Wing Commander: The Secret Missions 2: Crusade, a computer game expansion pack
• Darkness Falls: The Crusade, an internet MUD
• Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade, a 2004 videogame
• Space Crusade, a boardgame set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade, a computer game expansion pack
• World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, a computer game expansion pack

Music

• Crusader (Chris de Burgh album), the fourth album by Chris de Burgh; released in 1979
• The Crusaders, a jazz and R&B group popular in the 1970s
• Crusade (album), a 1967 blues album by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers
• The Crusade (album), an album by Trivium
• The Crusader (album), an album by New Zealand rapper Scribe
• Crusader (Saxon album), an album by Saxon
• Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, a drum and bugle corps in Boston, Massachusetts
• Dagenham Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps a defunct British drum and bugle corps.
• The Crusaders, Neil Christian's backing group

Television

• Crusader (TV series), a 1955-1956 adventure/drama television series starring Brian Keith
• Crusader Rabbit, an animated television series
• Crusade (TV series), an American science fiction TV show spinoff from Babylon 5
• The Crusade (Doctor Who), four episode serial from Doctor Who
• "Crusade" (Stargate SG-1), an episode from the science fiction TV series
• Crusades (BBC TV series), a British TV series hosted by Terry Jones

Novels

• Crusader (Sara Douglass novel), a 1999 novel by Sara Douglass
• Crusader (Bloor novel), a 1999 novel by Edward Bloor
• Crusade in Jeans, a novel set in the Children's Crusade by Dutch author Thea Beckman
• Crusade (Robyn Young novel), a 2007 novel by Robyn Young
• Crusade (Starfire), a 1992 novel by David Weber and Steve White
• The Dark Crusade, a 2005 Walter H Hunt novel.
• The Children's Crusade (novel), an 1896 French-language novel by Marcel Schwob
• The Crusade (Doctor Who), novelization of the TV serial
• Crusade (Laird novel), a 2007 historical novel by Elizabeth Laird

Other

• Great Crusade, an episode in Warhammer 40,000 fictional history
• Crusader (passenger train), a streamliner which ran from Philadelphia, PA, to Jersey City, NJ

[edit] Sport

• Crusaders F.C., a Northern Irish football team
• Crusaders (rugby) or Canterbury Crusaders, a rugby union team from New Zealand
• Crusader, the jet speedboat in which John Cobb died
• Short Crusader, a racing seaplane built by Short Brothers.
• Celtic Crusaders, a Welsh rugby league team
• Western Crusaders, a Fijian rugby union team
• Valparaiso Crusaders, Valparaiso University sports teams
• Durban Crusaders, a South African club rugby team

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