Giants, Infantry, Guerrilla, and the Children’s Crusade — Lexical Investigation

Giants, infantry, guerrilla, Children’s Crusade — etymology

This note ties three military-historical terms to the timeline thesis that Rus-Horde giant lineages fought crusading wars against the Istanbul–temple apparatus, then lost formed battle to cannon and survived afterward as irregulars. Full etymological tables, mainstream chronology notes, and an extended related-word list sit in the timeline appendix: Giants, Infantry, Guerrilla, Children’s Crusade — Etymology.

Timeline anchors

Event	Slug
First Crusade / Trojan War; Children’s Crusade as young giant wave	evt-the-first-crusade-trojan-war
Giants of the Rus-Horde	evt-the-giants-of-the-rus-horde
Kulikovo — cannon vs giants	evt-giants-are-defeated-at-the-battle-of
Constantinople — Horde infantry	evt-1453-ce-fall-of-czar-grad-constantinople

Thesis (this chronology)

Infantry — Dictionaries derive the word from Italian/Spanish infanteria ← infante “foot soldier,” earlier “youth,” from Latin infans. Standard accounts stress young, non-cavalry, on foot. This chronology adds: Horde shock foot included young giant contingents; organized line assault was what states later remembered as infantry, without preserving stature in the gloss.
Guerrilla — Spanish guerrilla = diminutive of guerra “war” → “little war”; English from the Peninsular War (~1809). Etymology does not encode gigante. The narrative link here is historical, not phonetic: after Kulikovo and progressive eradication, giant-line remnants could not hold set-piece battles; irregular, local, ungovernable resistance matches what modern languages call guerrilla warfare.
Children’s Crusade — Scaligerian scholarship places the 1212 movements in France and Germany, questions literal children, and notes Latin pueri as social category (youths / dependents). This timeline already reads the name as the rash first wave of young giants before the main host. See the appendix for the mainstream vs. thesis contrast.

Relation to Fomenko vs. author vocabulary

Do not merge First Crusade (~1196) polemics with Kulikovo (1380) branch labels without naming which map is in force — see Two Branches: Fomenko vs Author.

Where to read more

Appendix (overflow): Giants, Infantry, Guerrilla, Children’s Crusade — Etymology — mainstream lexicography, dates, related words (pueri, infante royal title, hoplite, cohort, mythic giant vocabulary).

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