By Raymond Ibrahim, The Stream - “This march of the crusaders,” historian Patrick Balfour correctly observes, “was a military feat seldom paralleled in history.”... It is now known as “the Long Campaign,” as the Christian army was in nonstop action for more than six months — most of which was in winter and hundreds of miles deep into enemy territory — at a time when campaigns usually lasted no more than two months and rarely went past fall. It consisted of seven major battles, all Christian victories. ...