Significant1099
Battle of Ascalon
plain near Ascalon · Ashkelon · Palestine
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
On 12 August 1099, shortly after capturing Jerusalem, a crusader army under Godfrey of Bouillon routed a numerically superior Fatimid relief army under vizier al-Afdal near Ascalon. Often considered the final action of the First Crusade, it secured the newly established Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Belligerents2
- Crusaders (Kingdom of Jerusalem)
- Fatimid Caliphate
ON THE MAPFatimid Caliphate
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Ascalon
- Foreign Exchanges: Battle of Ascalon (1099)
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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