High Middle Ages · Middle East · War
1291
Mamluks capture Acre
May 18, 1291
The last great crusader stronghold fell after a six-week siege by Sultan al-Ashraf Khalil. Templars fought to the last in their sea-tower as it collapsed into the Mediterranean. Nearly two centuries of Frankish rule in the Holy Land ended in smoke on the Levantine sand. The fall of Acre sent shock waves through Christendom and prompted calls for new crusades that would never materialize.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.