Children's Crusade

American  

noun

1. a crusade to recover Jerusalem from the Saracens, undertaken in 1212 by thousands of French and German children who perished, were sold into slavery, or were turned back.

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Example Sentences

Her Camp Hope effort fails, in a climax that reels from slapstick to horror, but the vision of a sustainable world may be redeemed by a fortitude not unlike Willa’s, a kind of Children’s Crusade.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2022

Or the famed Children’s Crusade in Birmingham, where singing children poured out of churches in peaceful, exuberant marches to occupy the segregated business district downtown.

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2022

“What about the way the early settlers treated the Indians? Was that moral? How about the Children’s Crusade? Was that moral?”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 6, 2019

Several thousand students participated in the famed Children’s Crusade, which began on May 2, 1963 and lasted almost a week.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2018

Ordinarily, he would have returned it immediately, but he was so fascinated by the story of the Children’s Crusade that he kept it and read it the next day.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli