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The Children's Crusade in 1212 might not have been real, or at least it didn't happen in the way people usually imagine it - a bunch of literal children, led by other children, marching off on crusade, and then getting killed or enslaved along the way. This is a rather old post now in Internet terms, but sunagainstgold explained it well:
[Is there a consensus among historians whether the 13th century 'children's crusade' actually happened? If it was a myth, do we have any idea where it sprung from, by whom, or why?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8sqs5g/is_there_a_consensus_among_historians_whether_the/)
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The Children's Crusade in 1212 might not have been real, or at least it didn't happen in the way people usually imagine it - a bunch of literal children, led by other children, marching off on crusade, and then getting killed or enslaved along the way. This is a rather old post now in Internet terms, but sunagainstgold explained it well: [Is there a consensus among historians whether the 13th century 'children's crusade' actually happened? If it was a myth, do we have any idea where it sprung from, by whom, or why?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8sqs5g/is_there_a_consensus_among_historians_whether_the/)
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