People's Crusade sets out
April 12, 1096
Peter the Hermit, riding a donkey, led a huge crowd of unarmed French and Rhineland peasants east months before the formal Crusade was ready. Their march through Germany and Hungary left a trail of looted villages and pogroms against Jewish communities in the Rhineland. Few of them would ever reach the Holy Land.
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