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Children's Crusade Failure

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A Children’s Crusade is a popular movement in Europe, in the time period of summer 1212. This effort to improve things allowed thousands of young people to set out to recover Jerusalem from the Muslims. Lasting around five months, the Children’s Crusade did not have the official approval and ended the crusade in failure. In the end, none of the travelers had reached Holy Land.

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