Filters:
People: Cesare Beccaria
Topic: Damietta, Siege of
Location: Pinhoe Devon United Kingdom

Damietta, Siege of

Years: 1218 - 1219

The Siege of Damietta of 1218 is part of the Fifth Crusade.

The city, under the control of the Ayyubid Al-Kamil, is besieged by and taken by the Crusaders in 1219.

"History should be taught as the rise of civilization, and not as the history of this nation or that. It should be taught from the point of view of mankind as a whole, and not with undue emphasis on one's own country. Children should learn that every country has committed crimes and that most crimes were blunders. They should learn how mass hysteria can drive a whole nation into folly and into persecution of the few who are not swept away by the prevailing madness."

—Bertrand Russell, On Education (1926)