Shields, Swords and Stout Hearts
The Crusades were one of our earlier and less popular forays out into the wider world. We decided to pop over to Europe and the Middle East and engage in a spot of Unpleasantness with anyone who didn't wear the same hat as us or something. Either way it wasn't one of our finer moments and certainly didn't endear us to anyone. It did give us the Chivalric Knights though, but they grew long beards and didn't always look outside their Order for 'comfort.'
Did they have something to do with Public School traditions we wonder?