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Turning point · The Crusades, 1095–1291
The fall of Krak
8 Apr 1271 — Baibars takes the impregnable castle by siege and a forged surrender order. If Krak could fall, nothing in Outremer was safe.
This is one scene of Chapter 11 — Baibars and the End in The Crusades, 1095–1291.
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