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Turning point · The Crusades, 1095–1291
Tunis
25 Aug 1270 — on his second crusade, Louis IX dies of dysentery in the camp outside Tunis, for reasons of strategy no one has ever fully explained. The last great royal crusade ends before it begins.
This is one scene of Chapter 10 — The Crusades of Kings in The Crusades, 1095–1291.
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