The siege of Damietta of 1218–1219 was part of the Fifth Crusade in which the Crusaders attacked the Egyptian port city of Damietta. The city was besieged in 1218 and taken by the Crusaders in 1219.
Crusaders attack the tower of Damietta in a painting by Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen.
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The Fifth Crusade was a campaign in a series of Crusades by Western Europeans to reacquire Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land by first conquering the powerful Egyptian Ayyubid Sultanate, led by S
Siege of Damietta (1218–1219)
…The siege of Damietta of 1218–1219 was part of the Fifth Crusade in which the Crusaders attacked the Egyptian port city of Damietta. The city was besieged in 1218 and taken by the Crusaders in 1219. At the beginning…
King Andrew II of Hungary at the head of his crusader army (Illuminated Chronicle)
Frisian crusaders attack a tower near Damietta during the Fifth Crusade (from Matthew Paris' 13th-century Chronica Majora).
Saint Francis of Assisi and Illuminato da Rieti before Sultan al-Kamil. 15th century fresco by Benozzo Gozzoli.