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Battle of Mansura (1250)
On the Crusades map as “Mansura”
Feb–Apr 1250 — Louis IX’s crusade is checked before the Nile town, then trapped by disease and the river. The saint-king is captured and ransomed; the Mamluk soldiers who beat him seize Egypt weeks later.
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- Battle site
- Chapter
- Fifth to Eighth Crusades (chapter 10 of Crusades)
- Atlas
- The Crusades, 1095–1291
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