Crusades · 1291
Fall of Acre
The last major crusader stronghold fell, ending nearly two centuries of crusader states.
Key facts
- When
- 1291
- Where
- Akka, Palestine
- Sides
- Mamluk Sultanate vs the crusaders
- Commanders
- al-Ashraf Khalil vs the military orders
- Result
- Mamluk victory
- Type
- Crusades
- Chapter
- 3. The Abbasids, the Crusades and the Mongols
The wider picture: The Mongol storm
Genghis Khan destroyed the Khwarazmian empire between 1219 and 1221. His grandson Hulagu took the fortress of Alamut in 1256 and Baghdad in February 1258. The last Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, al-Musta'sim, was put to death on Hulagu's orders, by most accounts rolled in a carpet and trampled.
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