Crusade (disambiguation)

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A crusade was one of a series of religious wars between Roman Catholic Europe and Muslim polities, or other enemies.

Crusade(s) or crusader(s) may also refer to:

Contents 1 Military 2 Political and cultural 3 Music 4 Entertainment 5 Sport

[edit] Military

• Northern Crusades, campaigns undertaken by the Catholic kings of Europe against the pagan peoples of Northern Europe
• HMS Crusader, three British naval ships
• XM2001 Crusader, a planned American mobile land weapon, cancelled in 2002
• Crusader tank, a British cruiser tank of World War II
• Operation Crusader, the British attack that relieved the Siege of Tobruk
• F-8 Crusader, an American carrier-based jet fighter
• XF8U-3 Crusader III, an American experimental fighter that was intended to replace the F-8
• VMFA-122 or The Crusaders, American Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 122
• Albigensian Crusade, or the Cathar Crusade a campaign to destroy Christian Heresy in Southern France and Northern Spain, related to the Medieval Inquisition

[edit] Political and cultural

• Crusader states, states set up by the Europeans in the Middle East during The Crusades
• Tenth Crusade, a rhetorical device that builds an analogy between the American-led "War on Terror" and the historical Crusades
• The New Crusade:America's War on Terrorism, a book by Rahul Mahajan on American policy following 9/11
• Crusaders Christian Youth Movement, a British interdenominational group
• The Crusaders (repeal of alcohol prohibition), an organisation against prohibition in America
• Campus Crusade for Christ, an American interdenominational Christian mission organization
• WHAS Crusade for Children, an annual telethon broadcast in Louisville, Kentucky
• Children's Crusade, a mixture of fiction, myth and fact concerning events in 1212

[edit] Music

• The Crusaders, a jazz and R&B group popular in the 1970s
• Crusade (album), a 1967 blues album by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers
• The Crusade (album), an album by Trivium
• The Crusader (album), an album by New Zealand rapper Scribe
• Crusader (Saxon album), an album by Saxon
• Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, a band in Boston, Massachusetts
• The Crusaders, Neil Christian's backing group

[edit] Entertainment

• Crusader Rabbit, an animated television series
• Crusader (game series), an action computer game series
• Crusader Kings (computer game), a strategy computer game
• Crusader (Dungeons & Dragons), a character class in Dungeons & Dragons
• Caped Crusader or Batman, a comic book superhero
• Mighty Crusaders, an Archie comics superhero team
• Crusaders (DC/Marvel), two groups of superhero DC Comics and Marvel Comics
• Crusader (Marvel Comics), a fictional character created by Marvel Comics
• Crusader (Douglass novel), a 1999 novel by Sara Douglass
• Crusader (Bloor novel), a 1999 novel by Edward Bloor
• Crusader (film), a 2004 TV-Movie starring Andrew McCarthy
• Stronghold: Crusader, a 2001 computer strategy game
• The Crusaders (film), a 2001 Italian television mini-series
• Crusade (TV series), an American science fiction TV show spinoff from Babylon 5
• Crusade in Jeans, a novel set in the Children's Crusade by Dutch author Thea Beckman
• The Crusade (Doctor Who), four episode from Doctor Who
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, a 1989 adventure film
• The Crusades (film), a 1935 film directed by Cecil B. DeMille
• The Crusades (comics), a series of American comic books
• "Crusade" (Stargate SG-1), an episode from the science fiction TV series
• The Infinity Crusade, a fictional conflict over cosmic cubes in Marvel Comics
• Crusades (BBC TV series), a British TV series hosted by Terry Jones

[edit] Sport

• Crusaders F.C., a Northern Irish football team
• Crusaders (rugby) or Canterbury Crusaders, a rugby union team from New Zealand
• Crusader, the jet speedboat in which John Cobb died
• Short Crusader, a racing seaplane built by Short Brothers.
• Celtic Crusaders, a Welsh rugby league team
• Western Crusaders, a Fijian rugby union team
• Valparaiso Crusaders, Valparaiso University sports teams