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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.
This is one scene of Chapter 10 — The Crusades of Kings in The Crusades, 1095–1291.
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