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Montgisard, Battle of

Years: 1177 - 1177

The Battle of Montgisard is fought between the Ayyubids and the Kingdom of Jerusalem on November 25, 1177.

The 16-year-old King Baldwin IV, seriously afflicted by leprosy, leads an outnumbered Christian force against the army of Saladin.

The Arab force is routed and their casualties are massive, with only a fraction managing to flee to safety.

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

― Aldous Huxley, in Collected Essays (1959)