The Crusade War: The Siege of Nicaea (1097)

Source:
• Anna Comnena 1969, 312; cf. Fulcher of Charters in Peters 1971
• Jill N. Claster, Sacred violence: the European crusades to the Middle East, 1095-1396, (University of Toronto Press, 2009), 45.
• Ibrahim, Raymond. Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam.

1081 - Nicaea is captured from the Byzantines by the Seljuk Turks
1096 - The Turks massacred the People's Crusade
April, 1097 - The crusaders depart Constantinople
May 14, 1097 - The crusaders begin the Siege of Nicaea
May 21, 1097 - Crusaders defeated Sultan Kilij Arslan I in battle, forcing him to retreat