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Headline: This Day in History: Pope Urban II Orders the First Crusade

Caption: November 27, 1095. During a speech to several hundred clerics and noblemen at the Council of Clermont in France, Pope Urban II called on all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land.

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