Bill,
I accept the correction. The cause would be regarded as just, but the
prospect of success would be arguable. Crusades were launched, however,
as late as my period of study, the fifteenth century, on the supposition
that they would be successful; but most later crusades were anything but
successful, some ending in major defeats (Nicopolis & Varna among them).
Tom Izbicki
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