Siege of Acre (1291)

Decisive Mamluk victory

Kingdom of Jerusalem

Acre: 15,000

The siege of Acre also called the fall of Acre took place in 1291 and resulted in a Crusaders losing dominance of Acre to the Mamluks. this is the considered one of the most important battles of the period. Although the crusading movement continued for several more centuries, the capture of the city marked the end of further crusades to the Levant. When Acre fell, the Crusaders lost their last major stronghold of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. They still manages a fortress at the northern city of Tartus today in north-western Syria, engaged in some coastal raids, together with attempted an incursion from the tiny island of Ruad, but when they lost that as living in 1302 in the siege of Ruad, the Crusaders no longer controlled any component of the Holy Land.

Historiography

Two short workings committed to the siege were made by contemporaries on the basis of eyewitness accounts: the Hystoria de desolacione of Excidium Acconis. These symbolize in four and six manuscripts, respectively. The Gestes des Chiprois, total a bracket later and surviving in a single manuscript, is the other main mention from the crusaders' perspective.