The People's Crusade, consisting of soldiers, peasants and priests, set over to Anatolia in the beginning of August 1096.

[1] His will prevailed and, on the morning of 21 October, the entire army of over 20,000 marched out toward Nicaea, leaving women, children, the old and the sick behind at the camp.

[1] Three miles from the camp, where the road entered a narrow, wooded valley near the village of Dracon, the Turkish army of Kilij Arslan I was waiting.

[4] One of the leaders of the crusade, the knight Walter Sans Avoir, was killed in the thick of the action.

[1]: 132  Eventually, the Byzantines under Constantine Katakalon sailed over and raised the siege;[6] these few thousand returned to Constantinople, the only survivors of the People's Crusade.