Within hours the French commander Colonel Prosper de Clermont requested Request a truce , followed Self_motion the next morning by an unconditional surrender Surrendering .

The First Crusade ( 1095–1099 ) was the first of a number of crusades Military_operation that attempted to recapture Recovering the Holy Land , called Request for by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095 .

Urban 's convocation Come_together of the Council of Clermont was specifically dedicated to this purpose , proposing siege warfare Hostile_encounter against the recently occupied cities of Nicaea and Antioch , even though Urban 's speech Social_event at Clermont in the testimony of witnesses writing Writing after 1100 was phrased Communication to allude to the re-conquest Recovering of Jerusalem and the Holy Land as additional goals .

Urban 's convocation Come_together of the Council of Clermont was specifically dedicated to this purpose , proposing siege warfare Hostile_encounter against the recently occupied cities of Nicaea and Antioch , even though Urban 's speech Social_event at Clermont in the testimony of witnesses writing Writing after 1100 was phrased Communication to allude to the re-conquest Recovering of Jerusalem and the Holy Land as additional goals .