I travelled back in time into that hillside camp before dawn. The mist lay heavy across the plains of Alise‑Sainte‑Reine, shrouding the Roman lines in near silence. I watched as the legionaries moved with mechanical precision, stakes, pickaxes, wooden beams, each one placed as though by a blueprint. I was struck by the earth itself. They carved ramparts and palisades in perfect rings around the hill where Vercingetorix and his Gallic warriors held out. The terrain rose steepl

If I could time travel, I would go to Clermont, France, on November 27, 1095, to witness Pope Urban II deliver the speech that launched the First Crusade. I want to see the exact moment when words became weapons, when rhetoric transformed into a military movement that would shape the next two centuries of human conflict. I want to be there in that field outside the city when Urban addresses the crowd. Thousands of people gathered to hear him speak about Christian duty, about

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