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- Episode
- Crusaders’ Lost Fort
- Broadcast Info
- 2006 (48 mins)
- Description
- In 1179 the Crusaders built a supposedly impregnable fortress at a crossing of the Jordan called Jacob’s Ford. Within a year the castle was taken in a siege lasting five days. Dr Thomas Asbridge investigates how.
- Genre
- History
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The Open University, "Timewatch". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/7312 (Accessed 20 Aug 2026)