The Children's Crusade is a military expedition in 1212 that was incited against Muslims mainly by religious groups. The goal here is to liberate Jerusalem and its surrounding holy lands, which are in the hands of Muslims, and return them to Christians. An army of children headed by 20,000 children in Germany led by a boy named "Nicolas" and 30,000 children led by a boy named "Stephen" in France march overland to the Mediterranean coast of Europe; on the shore, like Prophet Moses, they wait for the sea to part and open the way to Jerusalem, but the sea does not part, and some of the children stay with Christian families there, some die of hunger on the way, some die in an accident while being transported by ship, and some are taken by Venetian merchants to the coast of North Africa and sold in slave markets.

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