Citations:Children's Crusade

English citations of Children's Crusade and children's crusade

• 1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 14:

  Mackay told us that the Children's Crusade started in 1213, when two monks got the idea of raising armies of children in Germany and France, and selling them in North Africa as slaves.

• 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 51:

  She thinks of it thinning the Children's Crusade still further, under the giant Fimo boots and aeroplanes and the streetlamps mounted with surveillance cameras.

• 2010 November 24, Laurie Penny, “This isn't just a student protest. It's a children's crusade”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

  This is a leaderless protest with no agenda but justice: it is a new children's crusade, epic and tragic.