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Site of memory · The Crusades, 1095–1291
The fall of Acre
18 May 1291 — the last great city of Outremer falls tower by tower after six weeks of siege; the final defenders drown or die on the mole. Two centuries of crusader rule on the mainland end in a single morning. A site of memory.
This is one scene of Chapter 11 — Baibars and the End in The Crusades, 1095–1291.
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