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    The siege of Damietta of 12181219 was part of the Fifth Crusade in which the Crusaders attacked the Egyptian port city of Damietta. The city, under the...
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    Following the successful siege of Damietta in 12181219, the Crusaders occupied the port for two years. Al-Kamil, now sultan of Egypt, offered attractive...
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    Jerusalem. After the siege of Damietta of 12181219, the port was occupied by the Crusaders. The siege devastated the population of Damietta. After the crusaders...
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  • (1169), a part of the Crusader invasions of Egypt Siege of Damietta (12181219), a part of the Fifth Crusade Siege of Damietta (1249), a part of the Seventh...
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    Al-Adiliya, a few miles south of Damietta. June 24 – Siege of Damietta: The Crusader army assaults the fortified city of Damietta, but they repeatedly fail...
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  • De itinere Frisonum (category History of Frisia)
    "that the liberation of the Church should begin at its head". Although the text makes no allusions to the siege of Damietta (12181219), finishing the story...
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    the Crusaders built two pontoon bridges across the Nile at the siege of Damietta (12181219), including one supported by 38 boats. On 27 May 1234, Crusader...
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  • fought while the siege of Damietta was ongoing. An Ayyubid victory, it had little effect on the course of the war. In February 1219, the Ayyubid sultan...
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    Crusades (category Medieval history of the Middle East)
    could stretch across the Nile. The siege of Damietta began in June 1218 with a successful assault on the tower. The loss of the tower was a great shock to...
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    Pelagius again refuses the peace terms. November 5 – Siege of Damietta: The Crusaders enter Damietta and find it abandoned. Seeing the Crusader standards...
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    Al-Kamil (category Year of birth uncertain)
    attacked by the forces of the Fifth Crusade. Al-Kamil took command of the forces which defended Damietta against the Crusaders. In 1219 he was almost overthrown...
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  • Crusade Siege of Mount Tabor (1218) – Crusades Siege of Damietta (1218) – Fifth Crusade Siege of Marmande (1219) – Albigensian Crusade Siege of Toulouse...
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  • left Acre for Damietta in Egypt during the last days of May 1218. On the 29 August 1219 an attack on Damietta failed, as St. Francis of Assisi had predicted...
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    rule Damietta (in Egypt) was confirmed shortly after the city fell to the crusaders in 1219. He claimed the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia on behalf of his...
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    worshippers as well. After the siege of Damietta in 12181219, the Crusaders under John of Brienne occupied Damietta. The mosque was converted into a...
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  • the siege of Damietta that began on 23 June 1218, attacking first the fortified tower at the Egyptian port city of Damietta. The siege would last nearly...
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  • In the summer of 1219, a Crusader army had been encamped for over a year besieging the walled city of Damietta. At the start of the siege, the Sultan,...
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  • attacking Damietta on Egypt's Nile Delta. In August 1218 the Friesian crusaders distinguished themselves by their success in destroying Damietta's upstream...
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    Al-Adiliya, a few miles south of Damietta. June 24 – Siege of Damietta: The Crusader army assaults the fortified city of Damietta, but they repeatedly fail...
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    arrives at Damietta. 1219 May 2. Leo II dies after bequeathing Cilicia to his youngest daughter, Isabella. John lays claim to Cilicia on behalf of his wife...
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    August 1218, supposedly of shock after the Crusaders managed to capture one of Damietta's towers. He was succeeded by his son al-Kamil. In the autumn of 1218...
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  • Oliver fitz Regis (category Children of John, King of England)
    With a group of English crusaders, he landed at the siege of Damietta in September or August. He died at Damietta in late 1218 or early 1219. It is unclear...
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    Pope Honorius III (category Christians of the Livonian Crusade)
    loss of Damietta on 8 September 1221. Most rulers of Europe were engaged in wars of their own and could not leave their countries for any length of time...
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  • fought in the Third Crusade Sir William de Harcourt, 1216, fought at Siege of Damietta. Sir Robert de Sheffield, 1216, fought in the fifth crusade. Sir Robert...
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  • fought alongside Leopold VI, Duke of Austria in the Fifth Crusade and in 12181219 he joined the Siege of Damietta in Egypt. He came into conflict with...
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    which affected the morale of the crusaders greatly. During September 1219, the Sultan, wary of the conflict outside Damietta, offered the crusaders a startling...
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    part of the Fifth Crusade, European crusaders attacked the Egyptian port city of Damietta, then part of the Ayyubid Sultanate. The Siege of Damietta lasted...
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    fifty years. Al-Mu'azzam Isa, emir of Damascus, ordered the castle to be destroyed during the 1218-1219 siege of Damietta to prevent it from falling into...
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    city of Cáceres, Spain. Savari then went to Egypt (1219), and was present at the taking of Damietta. Upon returning to Poitou, he became a seneschal for...
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