High Middle Ages · Middle East · War
1177
Battle of Montgisard
November 25, 1177
A twenty-six-year-old leper king, Baldwin IV, rode out of Jerusalem with a handful of knights and caught Saladin's raiding force strung out across the coastal plain. The charge broke the Muslim army. Saladin barely escaped with his life on a racing camel, and the Crusaders won their last great open-field victory.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.