Crusader

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Crusader may refer to:

Military

• Crusader, a participant in one of the Crusades
• Crusader tank, a British cruiser tank of World War II
• HMS Crusader, three British ships
• Operation Crusader, a British attack in North Africa in the Second World War
• 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
• Crusaders (guerrilla), a Croatian anti-communist guerrilla army

Transportation

• Crusader (speedboat), the jet speedboat in which John Cobb died
• Crusader (train), a streamlined train which operated between 1937 and 1981
• Crusader, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive that was built for and ran on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
• Crusader ambulance (original version named Crusader 900), a type of emergency ambulance in widespread use in the United Kingdom, originally developed by the St John Ambulance Brigade

Civilian aircraft

• Short Crusader, a racing seaplane built by Short Brothers
• American Gyro AG-4 Crusader, an aircraft built by the Crusader Aircraft Corporation
• Cessna T303 Crusader

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, originally called the Crusaders in their first issue
• Crusader, an alias used by a character claiming to be Marvel Boy

Games

• Crusader (game series), a 1995 action computer game series
• Crusader (Dungeons & Dragons), a Dungeons & Dragons character class
• Crusader: Adventure Out of Time, a 1997 video game
• Stronghold: Crusader, a 2001 computer strategy game

Media

• The Crusader (newspaper), an official organ of The Knights Party (Knights of the Ku Klux Klan)

Novels

• The Crusaders, a 1948 bestseller by Stefan Heym
• The Crusaders. An Historical Romance, of the Twelfth Century, an 1820 novel by Louisa Stanhope
• 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 (1918 film), a 1918 Italian film
• The Crusaders (2001 film), a 2001 Italian television mini-series
• Crusader (film), a 2005 TV movie starring Bo Derek and Andrew McCarthy
• "Crusaders" (original name Krzyżacy means "crusaders"), a Polish film released as Knights of the Teutonic Order
• 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

Music

Sport clubs

Other uses

• Crusader (horse) (1923–1940), a United States racehorse
• Urban Saints, a Christian youth charity based in the United Kingdom previously known as Crusaders
• The Crusaders (repeal of alcohol prohibition), a group that promoted repeal of national alcohol prohibition in the U.S.
• The Crusader (sculpture), a 1931 Lorado Taft sculpture in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery
• Lucas Oil Crusader, a monster truck currently racing in the Monster Jam professional monster truck racing series

See also

• Crusade (disambiguation)
• The Caped Crusader, an epithet for Batman