Crusader

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A crusader is someone who participates in a crusade.

Crusader may also refer to:

In the military:

• Crusader tank, a British cruiser tank of World War II
• Operation Crusader, a British attack in North African campaign in World War II
• F-8 Crusader, a U.S. Navy fighter jet
• F8U-3 Crusader III, an experimental fighter intended to replace the F-8 and compete with the F-4 Phantom II
• VMFA-122 Crusaders, a United States Marine Corps fixed wing fighter-attack squadron 122
• XM2001 Crusader, an American self propelled artillery project

In music:

• Crusader (album), the debut album by New Zealand rapper Scribe
• Crusader (Saxon album)
• The Crusaders, a jazz and R&B group popular in the 1970s
• Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, a Drum Corps International division I marching band

In entertainment:

• Crusaders (comics), two fictional superhero teams in comics
• Crusader (Marvel Comics), a fictional character created by Marvel Comics and enemy to Thor; later, an unrelated Skrull superhero of the same name
• Crusader Comics, controversial comics published by Chick Publications that concentrate mainly on anti-Christian conspiracy theories
• Crusader (game series), an action-oriented computer game series
• Crusader (Dungeons & Dragons), a Dungeons & Dragons character class
• The Crusader (film), a 2007 motion picture
• Crusader (film), a 2004 motion picture
• Crusader (television), a 1950s series

In sports:

• Crusaders (rugby) (formerly the Canterbury Crusaders), a rugby union team from New Zealand
• Celtic Crusaders, a rugby league team from Wales
• Western Crusaders, a rugby union team from Fiji
• Crusaders F.C., a football team from Northern Ireland
• Valparaiso Crusaders, the sports teams of Valparaiso University
• Crusaders, the sports teams of the University of Dallas

Other uses:

• Crusader (speedboat), a jet speedboat in which John Cobb fatally crashed
• Crusader (train), a streamlined train which operated between 1937 and 1960
• a newspaper in New Orleans that opposed racial segregation in the 1790s
• Crusaders Christian Youth Movement, youth group founded by a missionary Albert Kestin
• The Crusaders (repeal of alcohol prohibition), a group that promoted repeal of national alcohol prohibition in the U.S.

[edit] See also

• Batman, a comic book character nicknamed the "Caped Crusader"

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