Cross, Crescent, and Frontier: The Global Holy War Collection (1095–1923)

COMING SOON · RELEASES 15 NOVEMBER 2026 · LOCKED COLLECTION

Cross, Crescent, and Frontier: The Global Holy War Collection (1095–1923)

From Pope Urban II at Clermont to the settlement created at Lausanne in 1923, this Regimental Record series will follow the wars, frontiers, empires and political ideas that were repeatedly described, justified or remembered through the language of faith.

This will not be a simple “Christians versus Muslims” chronology. The series will test that inherited narrative against Latin Christian, Byzantine, Islamic, Ottoman, Iberian, Baltic, Balkan and imperial evidence. Alliances across religious lines, civil wars inside religious communities, trade, dynastic politics, conquest, colonisation, nationalism and great-power strategy will be treated alongside crusade, jihad and religious ideology.

Public release: 15 November 2026.

The collection is currently locked. Individual investigations are being researched and built to the Iron Standard. They are not publicly accessible before release.

Forthcoming investigations

  1. Clermont 1095: What Did Urban II Actually Preach?
  2. The First Crusade 1096–99: Pilgrimage, Holy War and the Capture of Jerusalem
  3. The Crusader States 1099–1187: Occupation, Coexistence and Frontier War
  4. Hattin 1187: How Did Saladin Break the Kingdom of Jerusalem?
  5. The Third Crusade 1189–92: Richard, Saladin and the War for the Coast
  6. The Fourth Crusade 1202–04: How Did a Crusade Sack Christian Constantinople?
  7. Reconquista and Crusade 1095–1492: Was Iberia One Long Holy War?
  8. The Northern Crusades c.1147–1410: Conversion, Conquest and the Baltic Frontier
  9. Mongols, Mamluks and Crusaders c.1240–1291: The Collapse of the Levantine States
  10. Acre 1291: Was This Really the End of the Crusader States?
  11. The Ottoman Rise and the Last Crusades 1354–1453: Nicopolis, Varna and Constantinople
  12. The Habsburg–Ottoman Frontier 1526–1699: Faith, Empire and the Military Borderlands
  13. Russia, the Balkans and the Eastern Question 1774–1878: Holy Places, Nationalism and Great-Power War
  14. The Crimean War 1853–56: Did a Quarrel Over Holy Places Cause a European War?
  15. The Balkan Wars and First World War 1912–18: Religion, Nationalism and the End of Empires
  16. Lausanne 1923: Population Exchange and the End of an Ottoman World

Iron Standard Investigation. We do not repeat the historical record; we interrogate it. Where the evidence is uncertain, we say so.

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