High Middle Ages · Middle East · War
1098
Crusaders storm Antioch
June 3, 1098
After eight months of fruitless siege, Bohemond bribed an Armenian guard to open a tower and the Crusaders poured into Antioch overnight, massacring the garrison and inhabitants. Within days they themselves were besieged inside the city by Kerbogha of Mosul's relief army, trapped in starvation behind their newly captured walls.
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