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Fourth Crusade
The
Fourth Crusade
(1202–04) was a
Western European
armed expedition originally intended to conquer
Muslim
-controlled
Jerusalem
by means of an invasion through
Egypt
. Instead, a sequence of events culminated in the Crusaders
sacking the city of Constantinople
, the capital of the Christian-controlled
Byzantine Empire
.
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