Crusades · BATTLE SITE ·
Battle of La Forbie (1244)
On the Crusades map as “La Forbie”
17 Oct 1244 — near Gaza, an allied Frankish–Damascene army is destroyed by Egyptian forces and Khwarezmian mercenaries who had just sacked Jerusalem. The crusaders never field an army this size again.
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- Battle site
- Chapter
- Fall of the crusader states (chapter 11 of Crusades)
- Atlas
- The Crusades, 1095–1291
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