(Definition of âput the cart before the horseâ from the Cambridge Advanced Learnerâs Dictionary & Thesaurus Â© Cambridge University Press) Translations of âput the cart before the horseâ.
FIRST CRUSADE. It was against this background that Pope Urban II, in a speech at Clermont in France in November 1095, called for a great Christian expedition to free Jerusalem from the Seljuk Turks, a new Muslim power that had recently begun actively harassing peaceful Christian pilgrims traveling to Jerusalem.
The Battle of Hastings is generally accepted as the earliest big battle of the Middle Ages. On Saturday 14th October 1066 the general of the invading French forces, Duke William of Normandy (Also known as William the Conqueror) and King Harold Godwinsson battled on the green pastures of Hastings.