Battle of Inab

June 29, 1149

Nur al-Din destroyed Prince Raymond of Antioch's army in a swampy meadow east of the Orontes and had his head sent to the caliph in Baghdad packed in silver. The County of Antioch lost most of its hinterland in a single afternoon and never fully recovered. Raymond's widow Constance was left to defend the principality with a handful of knights and a desperate appeal to the king of Jerusalem.