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During the First Crusade's Siege of Antioch, Christian forces entered the city with the help of a traitorous guardsman. How common were such tactics in the Early and High Middle Ages, and to what extent was espionage used as a tactic of war?

by /u/demuratrix in /r/AskHistorians

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