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Title: Crusader armies were remarkably genetically diverse, study finds
Post by: davidb on Apr 18, 2019, 06:32 PM

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/18/crusader-armies-remarkably-genetically-diverse-study

David Blanchard

Title: Re: Crusader armies were remarkably genetically diverse, study finds
Post by: Patrick Waterson on Apr 18, 2019, 07:02 PM

Three men-at-arms or knights, two poulains or turcopoles and four local serjeants or soldiers - pretty much par for the course for a Crusader army, methinks.

Title: Re: Crusader armies were remarkably genetically diverse, study finds
Post by: Tim on Apr 18, 2019, 08:21 PM

I know the Crusader army tended to be rather small but I think 9 blokes trying to reconquer the Holy Land is placing rather a lot of faith in Devine Intervention...

Title: Re: Crusader armies were remarkably genetically diverse, study finds
Post by: Jim Webster on Apr 18, 2019, 08:24 PM

To be honest I don't think many wargamers who did do any reading about the period would be surprised by the findings

Title: Re: Crusader armies were remarkably genetically diverse, study finds
Post by: Patrick Waterson on Apr 19, 2019, 09:16 AM

Quote from: Tim on Apr 18, 2019, 08:21 PM
I know the Crusader army tended to be rather small but I think 9 blokes trying to reconquer the Holy Land is placing rather a lot of faith in Divine Intervention...

Obviously they had miscalculated the figure representational scale.

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