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Battle of Cresson (1187)

On the Crusades map as “The Springs of Cresson”

1 May 1187 — a small force of Templars and Hospitallers charges a far larger Muslim army and is annihilated. The military orders’ recklessness bleeds the kingdom of its best knights weeks before the reckoning.

When
Type
Battle site
Chapter
Saladin and the fall of Jerusalem (chapter 6 of Crusades)
Atlas
The Crusades, 1095–1291
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Map showing Battle of Cresson (1187), battle site in The Crusades, 1095–1291
BATTLE SITE · THE CRUSADES, 1095–1291

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