Illustration of the Children's Crusade
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The Children's Crusade was supposedly launched in 1212 by the 12-year old French boy Stephen de Cloyes. More than 50,000 children were thought to have been sold into slavery when they thought that they were boarding ships that would take them to the Holy Land, but many historians disbelieve that this Crusade ever occurred. This illustration looks like it could have come from a children's book and shows kids happily marching off to the Crusade. Since the stories tell of the children being sold into slavery, this is a strange image to have a such a book.
