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{{stub}}The Children's Crusades is one of the greatest tragedies of all time. It was the misdirected zeal of thousands of children who thought they could capture the Holy Land. There were two of these Children's Crusades and both of them ended up in disaster.

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The Children's Crusade is the name given to two ill-conceived crusades which grew out of a series of visions by children, who claimed to have been told by [[Jesus]] in visions that they should go the the Holy Land and convert Muslims to [[Christianity]]. There were two of these Children's Crusades, both of which originated around the year 1212 A.D., one in [[France]], and one in [[Germany]].  Exactly how many of the participants were young children is not clear, due to the fact that chroniclers used the medieval [[Latin]] word ''pueri'', which can mean either children or simply "boys" in the sense of younger persons or servants of any age.