[Antoninus]

Of course it goes without saying that if it was not for the sack of Constantinople by the Pope's crusade this battle would not have been necessary.

You're lying, of course, by hinting that the Pope had anything to do with the sack of Constantinople in 1204. Indeed, he condemned and lamented it in strong terms. Let's face it, the Greeks had been falling back since 1071 and if not for the Crusades, Constantinople might have fallen to the Turks much earlier than it finally did in 1453. And, I might add, when beseiged in1453, many of the stoutest defenders of the Constantinople were ... Latin Catholics from Venice, Genoa, and Spain.

So take your anti-Papal propaganda and stuff it.

[Destro]

Pope Innocent III later removed the ban that had excommunicated the so called Crusaders.