Crusades · TURNING POINT ·
Siege of Krak des Chevaliers (1271)
On the Crusades map as “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.
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- Turning point
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- Fall of the crusader states (chapter 11 of Crusades)
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- The Crusades, 1095–1291
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