Conflict: Seventh Crusade
Combatants: Crusaders vs. Egyptians
Location: Egypt
Outcome: Egyptian victory
After a failed attempt to capture Cairo and a defeat at Mansura, French Crusader Louis IX had begun a long retreat back to Damietta. At Fariskur, the Europeans were attacked again by Moslem pursuers. The army of Crusaders was destroyed and Louis himself captured. He later agreed to pay a ransom of 800,00 gold livres.
Points of Interest:
The Seventh Crusade was launched in an attempt to retake Jerusalem from the Moslems, but Louis' army was defeated without even leaving Egypt.
Louis IX was canonized by the Catholic Church in 1297.
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Sources:
Dupuy, R. Ernest & Dupuy, Trevor N. (1993). The Harper's Encyclopedia of Military History. New York: HarperCollins.
Eggenberger, David (1985). An Encyclopedia of Battles: Accounts of Over 1,560 Battles from 1479 B.C. to the Present. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
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