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Battle of Hattin

July 4, 1187

Saladin lured the thirst-maddened Crusader army into the volcanic hills above Lake Tiberias and annihilated them. King Guy was captured, the True Cross was lost, and within months Jerusalem itself fell - undoing eighty-eight years of Latin rule in the Holy Land. The defeat was so complete that Saladin took fifty Crusader castles in the weeks that followed, reducing the Latin kingdom to a few coastal strongholds.

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Before and after in Middle East

Before: March 16, 1185: Death of Baldwin IV
After: August 28, 1189: Siege of Acre begins

Before and after in War

Before: 1186: Ghurids conquer Lahore
After: May 11, 1189: Barbarossa launches the German crusade

Era

High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Hattin