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Battle of Cresson (1187)

On the Crusades map as “The Springs of Cresson”

1 May 1187 — a small force of Templars and Hospitallers charges a much larger Muslim army at the Springs of Cresson and is annihilated. Their recklessness costs the kingdom some of its best knights only weeks before the reckoning.

When
Type
Battle site
Chapter
Saladin and the fall of Jerusalem (chapter 6 of Crusades)
Atlas
The Crusades, 1095–1291
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Map showing Battle of Cresson (1187), battle site in The Crusades, 1095–1291
BATTLE SITE · THE CRUSADES, 1095–1291

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