Mongol Empire · BATTLE SITE ·
Battle of Ain Jalut (1260)
On the Mongol Empire map as “Ain Jalut”
3 Sep 1260 — At the Spring of Goliath, the Mamluks of Egypt — slave-soldiers raised from the same steppe peoples — spring a feigned retreat on the Mongols themselves. Kitbuqa’s army is destroyed. It is the empire’s first defeat that is never avenged: the tide has found its western shore.
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- Battle site
- Chapter
- Fall of Baghdad and Ain Jalut (chapter 8 of Mongol Empire)
- Atlas
- The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294
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- Crusades
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