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In 25 July 1261 a small army from the Empire of Nicaea lead by General Alexios Strategopoulos found out that Constantinople was unguarded and the Latin Emperor Baldwin II was out of the city... A swift attack resulted in the capture of the Imperial city and the restoration of the Byzantine Empire in 15 August 1261 under co-Emperors Michael VIII Palaeologus and John IV Laskaris...
News reached Western Europe few weeks later 1-2 days before the election of Jacques Pantaleon Patriarch of Jerusalem as Pope Urban IV...
Upon hearing this Urban IV tried to organise a Crusade in order to restore Baldwin II and the Latin Empire... But none came to his call...
WI he had succeded in mustering a Crusading army and lead it against Constantinople? How possible is thet? Could he had revived the Latin Empire? Any thoughts?