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This is my first thread. It is not my first alternate history, so I know where I'm going here. Anyways to explain what this is all about: In the year 1199, King Richard I of the Angevin Empire decided not to head out into the dry desert, saving his troops, and his empire.

THIRD CRUSADE:
April, 1199: King Richard keeps control of Outremer and stops Saladins army from taking his lands, instead of marching off into the desert to Jerusalem.
May: Richard and Phillip II of France use their combined naval force to take the east coast of Palestine.
June: English and French troops march to Jerusalem. Encounter Saladins army. Undecisive battle. Camp on the River Jordan.
July-August: Siege of Jerusalem. Saladin flees to Eygpt. All of Arab Palestine is ceded to Outremer.
October: English-French troops sail down the Nile. Half the fleet is sunk near Giza. Phillip drowns. Louis VII becomes king of France. Richards brother John takes crown of England. Richard is called back to stop his brother. Third Crusade dissipated.

FEUD OF THE BROTHERS:
Janruary, 1200: Richard returns to Normandy. Excises all followers of John. Rebuilds his army.
February: John holds off north of the river Thames. Richard sieges the Tower of London using his techniques from the Crusade. London is taken. Richard flees to York.
March: Richard reaches Yorkshire. Huge blockade of English military. Nearly all turn to Richards side. John is executed in the market in York

COLLAPSE OF FRANCE:
May, 1200: Diplomacy with French weaken terribly after the King allied eith John. Richard convinces the Holy Roman Emperor, Otto IV to join him in putting all of France under their control. Invasion of France underway.
June: Paris blockaded. All lands east of Amiens and west of Paris is under German/English control. Toulouse allies with HRE and England.
July: Siege of Paris. French royal family flees to Outremer. All of France (Exception of Toulouse) is under foriegn control. Paris ceded to HRE. Kingdom of Toulouse independent from France.

DOMINATION:
September, 1200: Richard returns to Eygpt with Otto. Land and naval troops swipe northern Eygpt. Anarchy in Arabian territories.
October: French overrun all of the English Outremer and gain supermacy in the Holy Land. Small reinforcement dispatched to stop advances of French. English fleet is badly damaged by Saladins army. Ottos land troops start to siege Cairo. Saladin is killed in the chaos. Richard joins Otto and take Cairo in he name of God.
November: Eygpt is converted and 1000s of Muslims are massacred. French are stopped at the English/German fortress on the Eygptian coast. French pull back into the Sinai as English/German troops march for Jerusalem.
December: The Arabian anarchy is reinstated as the Emirates of Jedda. English and German troops create an official alliance/pact which it's expiring date is in December 1300. French Jerusalem is held back. Byzantines start to reinstate their rule in the Levant.
Janruary 1201: French Outremer is replaced by the Allied Outremer. Byzantines regain all the way to Damascus. Border issues with Byzantines. Allied forces start the invasion of the Emirates of Jedda.
March: Allied fleet reaches the Holy City of Mecca. The city is burnt to the ground. Muslims worldwide mourn for their loss. Siege of Jedda underway
April-May: Siege of Jedda. Collapse of the Emirates of Jedda. Creation of Christian Arabia. Richard and Otto then spilt the land between them. Eygpt went to Richard and the Holy Land and Arabia went to Otto.

MORE TO COME ;)
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