Crusader

Crusader may refer to:

Military

• Crusader, a participant in one of the Crusades
• Crusader states, states set up by the Europeans in the Middle East during The Crusades
• Crusader tank, a British cruiser tank of World War II
• HMS Crusader, three British naval ships
• Operation Crusader, a British attack in North African campaign in World War II
• F-8 Crusader, a U.S. Navy fighter jet
• XF8U-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

Comics

• Crusader (Marvel Comics), two different fictional characters in Marvel Comics
• Crusaders (DC Comics), a name used by a team of DC Comics superheroes
• Crusaders (Marvel Comics), a name by a similar team from Marvel Comics
• Crusader X, an alternate version of Captain Britain
• Mighty Crusaders, an Archie comics superhero team, later licensed by DC Comics and relaunched as "The Crusaders" on the Imprint label
• The Southern Knights were originally called the Crusaders in their first issue but had to change their name due to Archie Comics' Mighty Crusaders
• Crusader, an alias used by a character claiming to be Marvel Boy (Robert Grayson)

Games

• Crusader (game series), an action computer game series
• Crusader (Dungeons & Dragons), a Dungeons & Dragons character class
• Crusader, a class in the MMORPG Dungeon Fighter Online
• Crusader: Adventure Out of Time, a video game
• Crusader Kings (computer game), a strategy computer game
• Stronghold: Crusader, a 2001 computer strategy game
• Warhammer 40.000 Dawn of War Dark Crusade, a real-time strategy game.

Novels

• Crusader (Sara Douglass novel), a 1999 fantasy novel by Sara Douglass
• Crusader (Bloor novel), a 1999 novel by Edward Bloor

Film and television

• The Crusaders (film), a 2001 Italian television mini-series
• Bo Derek and Andrew McCarthy
• The Crusader (1932 film), a 1932 film starring Evelyn Brent
• The Crusader (2007 film), a 2007 direct-to-dvd motion picture
• Crusader (TV series), a 1955-1956 adventure/drama television series starring Brian Keith
• Crusade (TV series), a short-lived 1999 science fiction television series and spin-off to Babylon 5
• Crusader Rabbit, an animated television series

Music

Albums

• Crusader (Chris de Burgh album) released in 1979
• Crusader (Saxon album) released in 1984
• The Crusader (album), the 2003 debut album by New Zealand rapper Scribe

Groups

• The Crusaders, a jazz and R&B group popular in the 1970s
• The Crusaders (1960s garage band), a 1960s garage band who released first Gospel rock record
• Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, a Drum Corps International division I marching band
• Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, a DCI Open Class drum corps
• The Crusaders, Neil Christian's backing group

Sport clubs

• Crusaders Rugby League, a Welsh rugby league club (formerly the "Celtic Crusaders").
• Crusaders (rugby) (formerly the Canterbury Crusaders), a rugby union team from New Zealand
• Durban Crusaders, a South African club rugby union team
• Western Crusaders, a rugby union team from Fiji
• Crusaders F.C., an association football team from Northern Ireland
• Valparaiso Crusaders, the sports teams of Valparaiso University
• Crusaders, the sports teams of the University of Dallas
• Holy Cross Crusaders, the athletics teams of College of the Holy Cross
• Canisius Crusaders. the athletics teams of Canisius High School, Buffalo, NY
• North Greenville Crusaders, the athletic teams of North Greenville University, Tigerville, South Carolina
• Harlequins Rugby League, an English rugby league club once known as "London Crusaders"

Transportation

• Crusader (speedboat), the jet speedboat in which John Cobb died
• Crusader (train), a streamlined train which operated between 1937 and 1960
• Crusader was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
• Short Crusader, a racing seaplane built by Short Brothers

Other uses

• Crusader (horse), a United States racehorse
• A newspaper in New Orleans that opposed racial segregation in the 1790s
• The Crusaders' Union, now Urban Saints, a British interdenominational group founded by Albert Kestin
• The Crusaders (repeal of alcohol prohibition), a group that promoted repeal of national alcohol prohibition in the U.S.
• College of the Holy Cross
• The Crusader (sculpture), a Lorado Taft sculpture in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery

See also

• Batman, a comic book character nicknamed the "Caped Crusader"
• Crusade (disambiguation)

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