Enrico Dandolo redirects the Fourth Crusade
1203
The ninety-year-old blind doge of Venice, owed a fortune by crusaders who could not pay their passage, persuaded the host to attack the Byzantine pretender Alexios III. Dandolo stood armored at the prow of his galley as his fleet entered the Golden Horn, bending a holy war to Venetian commercial ambition.
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