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	CREQUY - LoveToKnow Article on CREQUY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He was killed on the 17th of March 1638 in an attempt to raise the siege of Crema, a fortress in the Milanese.
		In 1667 he served on the Rhine, and in 1668 he commanded the covering army during Louis XIV.s siege of Lille, after the surrender of which the king rewarded him with the marshalate.
		In 1646, after the siege of Orbitello, he was made lieutenant-general by Louis.
	98.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CR/CREQUY.htm (1053 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Damietta
		Damietta, first mentioned by Stephanus Byzantius, was situated at the mouth of the Phatnitic branch of the Nile, on the right bank; its prosperity seems to have coincided with the decline of its religious metropolis Pelusium.
		Damietta is no longer at the mouth of the Nile, but ten miles from the sea; it is not heavily Moslem in population.
		Damietta is also, probably since the fifth century, a see for the Monophysite Copts; moreover, one of the non-Catholic Greek metropolitans subject to the Patriarch of Alexandria bears the title of Pelusium and Damietta.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04615b.htm (392 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He greatly feared the loss of Damietta and perhaps was unsure of his ability to defend Egypt.
		John of Brienne expected that Damietta would be his, belonging to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, but Pelagius declared that the city belonged to the West in general.
		Damietta would be returned to the Muslims, and the Christians would observe a truce of eight years with Egypt.
	www.the-orb.net /textbooks/crusade/fifthcru.html (3789 words)

	Fifth Crusade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In June of 1218 the crusaders began their siege of Damietta, and despite resistance from the unprepared sultan al-Adil, the tower outside the city was taken on August 25.
		By now al-Kamil was able to ally with the other Ayyubids in Syria, who had defeated Kay Kaus I. The crusaders march to Cairo was disastrous; Al-Kamil simply flooded the Nile, cutting the crusaders' access to the roads, and then surrounded them, forcing Pelagius to agree to a peace.
		In September al-Kamil retook Damietta, and the crusaders left for home, having failed to accomplish anything of importance in their three years in Egypt.
	uncover.us /en/wikipedia/f/fi/fifth_crusade.html (763 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - Knights of Rhodes AAR - The New Crusades
		The siege of Damietta (3) in the Delta North of Cairo is begun with great zest, although attrition is already biting the fleet and the army.
		The siege of Damietta is progressing slowly and again we receive word of the success the Turk is having against the Mameluke’s.
		The siege of Alexandria (2) is proceeding slowly, and the war rages on in western Europe unabated.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=20388 (9526 words)

	The Knights Hospitallers
		During the fifteenth century, especially after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Hospitallers faced regular sieges by the Turks.
		The town walls were reinforced, and they managed to repel the attacks of 1460, and the famous attack on Rhodes in 1480.
		The siege of 1522, however, resulted in the Hospitallers withdrawal from Rhodes.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/9767/hospitallers.html (1113 words)

	The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire - Vol 6 - Chapter LIX Part III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		But Damietta was the first and the last of his conquests; and in the fifth and sixth crusades, the same causes, almost on the same ground, were productive of similar calamities.
		Instead of a proselyte, he found a siege: the French panted and died on the burning sands: St. Louis expired in his tent; and no sooner had he closed his eyes, than his son and successor gave the signal of the retreat.
		After a siege of thirty three days, the double wall was forced by the Moslems; the principal tower yielded to their engines; the Mamalukes made a general assault; the city was stormed; and death or slavery was the lot of sixty thousand Christians.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/roman/thedeclineandfalloftheromanempire-6/chap3.html (4854 words)

	chronological 1250 - 1299
		Archbishop of Nicosia Eustorge de Montaigu dies at siege of Damietta.
		Crusaders led by King Louis IX of France move from Damietta to Cairo along the Nile River until they meet Emir Fakr-ed-din at the head of a army of 70,000 at Ashmoun Canal by the town of al-Mansurah.
		In the Seventh Crusade Louis sailed to Egypt in 1248 and recaptured Damietta, but after he and his army were routed he had to return it as well as a massive ransom just to get free.
	www.allcrusades.com /CHRONOLOGICAL/chrono-1250-1299.html (2712 words)

	WINCHESTER - LoveToKnow Article on WINCHESTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Saier de Quincy was one of the twenty-five barons named to enforce the observance of the Great Charter.
		He served in the Crusades at the siege of Damietta in 1219, and died soon afterwards, probably on the 3rd of November of that year.
		During the first Civil War it was fortified for the king, and stood a succession of sieges by the parliamentary forces between 1643 and 1645.
	7.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WI/WINCHESTER.htm (5299 words)

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		If anything, he and Roland were almost out of funds, and the few florins and ducats they had left were rapidly becoming fewer as they left their pockets to pay for food, lodging, and of course, wine.
		He tried not to think about the things he had just done, but he could feel the weight of the small crucifix around his neck, and he was haunted by the pleading eyes of the slave girl as she plucked at his sleeve.
		You were at the siege of Damietta, were you not?" Nicolas looked at the older man hopefully, and saw the blank look on the man's face change to recognition.
	www.fkfanfic.com /fanfic/s/sayg1143.txt (12348 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Makrisi: Arabic Acc't of St. Louis' Crusade
		As he had no doubt but that Damietta would be the first place attacked, he endeavoured to put it in a state of defence, and formed there magazines of every sort of provision, arms, and ammunition.
		It is impossible to paint the despair of the inhabitants of Damietta when they saw the emir Fakreddin march away from their town, and abandon them to the fury of the Christians..
		After many conferences and disputes, it was agreed that the French should evacuate Damietta, and that the king, and all prisoners in Egypt, should be set at liberty, on condition of paying down one half of such ransom as should be fixed on.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/makrisi.html (8443 words)

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		The emperor and the king embraced and wept at Jerusalem; their martial trains, the remnant of mighty armies, were joined to the Christian powers of Syria, and a fruitless siege of Damascus was the final effort of the second crusade.
		Among the Latin heroes, Godfrey of Bouillon and Frederic Barbarossa could alone achieve the passage of the Lesser Asia; yet even their success was a warning; and in the last and most experienced age of the crusades, every nation preferred the sea to the toils and perils of an inland expedition.
		The choice of Tiberias for his first siege was suggested by the count of Tripoli, to whom it belonged; and the king of Jerusalem was persuaded to drain his garrison, and to arm his people, for the relief of that important place.
	www.ccel.org /g/gibbon/decline/decline6.txt (17167 words)

	reims
		The stench of the corpses in Damietta was unbearable, and as many died of the stench as of the disease, and they were so hardpressed that they could bear no more.
		The king had the message read, and he saw in the letter that this was the sultan's nephew, sent to Damietta to become its leader, and the king saw that the situation inside the city was desperate.
		The emperor Frederick held the siege for a year and a half, with few results, except that no one could get out or in, and those inside the city were suffering.
	www.bu.edu /english/levine/reims.htm (21654 words)

	FOOTNOTES
		The abbot Martin left the army at Zara, proceeded to Palestine, was sent ambassador to Constantinople, and became a reluctant witness of the second siege.
		His feelings and expressions are original: he often weeps, but he rejoices in the glories and perils of war with a spirit unknown to a sedentary writer.
		Gunther, and his abbot Martin, were not yet returned from their obstinate pilgrim age to Jerusalem, or St. John d’Acre, where the greatest part of the company had died of the plague.
	www.godrules.net /library/gibbon/82gibbon_f15.htm (13164 words)

	Baron John De Lacie
		He was also appointed to see that the new statutes were properly carried into effect and observed in the counties of York and Nottingham.
		The monk, Matthew Paris, records: "On the 22d day of July, in this year (1240), which was St. Magdalen's Day, John, Earl of Lincoln, after suffering from a long illness went the way of all flesh." His first wife was Alice, daughter of Gilbert 'd’Aquila, but by her he had no issue.
		She died in 1215 and he married second, after his marked gallantry at the Siege of Damietta, Margaret, only daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincey, a fellow Crusader, who died in the Holy Land, eldest son of Saire de Quincey, the Surety.
	www.magnacharta.org /Barons/baron_john_de_lacie.htm (790 words)

	Welcome to the Crusades: 5/ 1/ 2005
		Only two kings and their armies reached Antioch, and a siege on Damascus was aborted.
		The humiliating defeat outside of Damascus left Nur-ad-Din, the sultan of Aleppo, free to unite Muslim Syria and sweep the Crusaders out of the Levant, the lands bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
		Suffering huge losses during the 18-month siege of Damietta in Northern Egypt, the Crusaders withdrew.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/05-05/05-01-05/c01li446.htm (1797 words)

	Starvogue -- Destination Guides - Africa & Middle ...
		EL-MANSURA was founded as the camp of Sultan al-Kamil's army during the 1218-21 siege of Damietta, though its name ("The Victorious") was a premature boast, since the Crusaders reoccupied Damietta in 1247.
		Louis was captured and ransomed for Damietta's return, and later met a similar fate on his Tunisian crusade.
		The medieval house where Louis was imprisoned, Beit Luqman, still stands near the Mwafi Mosque, but most of today's El-Mansura is modern, with tree-lined avenues, a university, and a central mosque whose twin minarets are visible from far away.
	guide.appetitenet.com /index.jsp?cid=79800&action=viewLocation&locationId=25603 (302 words)

	Bush Crusader Ancestors List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Stephen gave up and went home during the long siege of Antioch in 1097-1098, for which he was roundly reviled.
		Philip and Richard Lion-heart were famously allies and rivals in the siege and reconquest of Acre in the spring of 1191.
		William d'Aubigny, Earl of Arundel (fought at siege of Damietta, Nov 1219.
	home.earthlink.net /~nathanieltaylor/leaves/Bush_cr_list.htm (1717 words)

	All Empires History Forum: Knight Templars
		Templars usually acted in battle as the vanguard or rearguard, defending the retreat of the secular knights; being so few and being capable in chasing or holding back the Saracen Horsemen who used bows on high speeds and on horseback.
		Siege of Acre 1191 (many died during their retreat)
		The battle began with a disjointed combat between the Templars and Saladin's right wing, Saracen right wing fell upon the Templars, who suffered severely in their retreat.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4519&PN=1 (2192 words)

	Egyptian History D (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He died in 1218 during the siege of Damietta in the Fifth Crusade, and was succeeded by al-Kamil, who lost Damietta to the Crusaders in 1219.
		However, he defeated their advance to Cairo by flooding the Nile, and they were forced to evacuate Egypt in 1221.
		In 1249 he faced an invasion by Louis IX of France (the Seventh Crusade), and Damietta was lost again.
	www.a-1hotels.com /eg/history/Egyptian_History_D/egyptian_history_d.html (2570 words)

	St. Francis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		And after receiving instructions in the faith of Christ and holy Baptism from those friars, he died reborn in that illness, and his soul was saved through the merits of St. Francis.
		A footnote to this chapter of the Fioretti states: St. Francis’ interviews with the Sultan of Egypt, Malik al-Kamil (1180-1238), during a lull in the Crusaders’ siege of Damietta in the Nile Delta in September 1219, are documented by contemporary writers.
		He set sail with twelve friars from Ancona in June 1219, and came to Damietta on the Nile delta, before which the crusaders were sitting in siege.
	members.aol.com /fmrega5/StFrancis.htm (2736 words)

	Ancestors of 1st Earl Of Winchester Saier IV DE QUINCY
		In 1218 the Earl of Winchester went with the Earls of Chester and Arundel to the Holy Land, assisted at the siege of Damietta in 1219, and died on 3 Nov of the same year, on the way to Jerusalem.
		Adhering to the same party after the accession of Henry III, the Earl of Winchester had a principal command at the battle of Lincoln and, there being defeated, was taken prisoner by the royalists.
		A leader of the First Crusade, he assisted at the siege of Damietta, in 1219, and died in the Holy Land on November 3, 1219, progressing toward Jerusalem.
	www.whosyomama.com /gabroaddrick3/6426.htm (1007 words)

	SCC Forums > MY LOVELY TURKISH NAPTHA? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		They were real, i dont remeber them being used in field battles but they were certainly used in sieges.
		This was used in the sieges of constantinople (1200s and 1400s), jerusalem(1099), Nicea (1099), Assur (1099), Acre (1190).
		Both the christains and the egyptians used naphtha in 1208 at the siege of damietta.
	www.stratcommandcenter.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t10725.html (1817 words)

	Saul's 32 Gen - tobg56 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Robert de Quincy was born about 1172 in (of) Winchester, England.
		He died in 1217 in Palestine, at the siege of Damietta.
		Hawise de Meschines was born in 1180 in Chester, Chestershire, England.
	www.bradleyfoundation.org /genealogies/32Gen/tobg56.htm (376 words)

	Re: [eia] Siege of Damietta, May 1807
		Yep, the city is captured and Turkey gains 1 PP.
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	Exhibition about the Custody of the Holy Land
		He bears witness to the saint's trip to Egypt and the encounter the saint had with the Sultan of Egypt, Melekel Kamel.
		There sems to be nothing strange in such an account had it not been that this takes place during the siege of Damietta (Egypt) by the Crusades.
		Francis' meeting with the Sultan was a revolutionary gesture of goodwill after almost two centuries of wars and battles between the christian and islamic armies for the control and rule of the Holy Land.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/ofm/curr/TSeven2.html (613 words)

	Near & Middle East and North African Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The bulk of material covers the period from 1600 to the present, but there is some older material going back to the Crusades.
		The earliest dated item is a letter from Ralph, Patriarch of Jerusalem, and some crusaders at the siege of Damietta to the Emperor Frederick II dated 1218.
		There are many accounts of early travel and exploration, including the papers of important British archaeologists in the region, and early works relating to classical and modern Near and Middle Eastern languages.
	www.asiamap.ac.uk /collections/collection.php?ID=303 (522 words)

	John -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		During the truce he persuaded Pope Innocent III to launch the Fifth Crusade in support of his daughter's kingdom.
		After quarreling with the Crusade leader, the cardinal legate Pelagius, John left Egypt in February 1220, returning in July 1221 to witness the humiliating defeat of the Crusaders and the abandonment of the siege of Damietta.
		Stephanie died in 1219; John then married Berengaria, daughter of Ferdinand III of Castile, and in 1225 gave his daughter Isabella in marriage to the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II, trying to retain his rights as regent of the kingdom of Jerusalem.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9043743 (897 words)

	atlit_links_1.html
		The site was chosen because it could have a better control on the coastal road and also the way to recovering Jerusalem, which had been taken in 1187.
		The castle was completed while the main army of the Crusade was engaged into the Moslem siege at Damietta in Egypt (1218-1221).
		The main, east façade of the castle was doubled by the addition of a wall with three towers.
	www.allcrusades.com /CASTLES/ISRAEL/ATLIT/LINKS-ATLIT/atlit-links-1.html (319 words)

	Teutonic Order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		With the coming of the knights of the Third Crusade two years later, including a large proportion of Germans, a new hospital was built outside Acre to succor those wounded in the siege.
		Salza received a gold cross from the King of Jerusalem as the mark of his Mastership, following the distinguished conduct of the knights at the siege of Damietta in 1219.
		By an Imperial act of January 23, 1214, the Grand Master and his successors were granted membership of the Imperial Court; as possessors of immediate fiefs they enjoyed a seat in the Imperial Diet with the Princely rank from 1226/27.
	www.chivalricorders.org /vatican/teutonic.htm (9042 words)

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