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In July 1099, the First Crusade reached Jerusalem—exhausted, starving, and racing against time. What followed was a brutal siege, a desperate final assault, and an aftermath that still echoes through history: mass killing, political scrambling, and the sudden reality that taking the Holy City was only the beginning.

In this episode, we track the siege day-by-day: the water crisis outside the walls, the frantic construction of siege towers, the final breach on July 15, and the power struggle that followed—ending with the new Crusader regime’s first major test at Ascalon.

⚔️ Topics covered:
• Why the siege had to be fast (and why it nearly wasn’t)
• Siege towers, tactics, and the decisive breach
• The violence of the sack and what sources say about it
• Godfrey of Bouillon, legitimacy, and “who gets to rule Jerusalem?”
• Ascalon: the battle that decided whether Jerusalem could be held

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0:00 - The Starving Army Arrives
1:33 - A Fortress of Stone and Sand
3:42 - The Desperate Race for Wood
5:33 - Breaching the Walls
6:10 - The Sack of Jerusalem
7:43 - Who Rules the Holy City?
9:34 - The Egyptian Counterattack (Ascalon)
11:06 - The Birth of a Hostile Frontier