Battle of Mount Cadmus

Battle of Mount Cadmus
Part of the Second Crusade

From a copy of the Passages d'outremer (c. 1490)
Date6 January 1148
Location
Pisidia
(modern-day Turkey)
Result Seljuk victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of France Sultanate of Rum
Commanders and leaders
Louis VII
William de Warren 
Everard of Breteuil 
Gautier of Montjay 
Reynauld of Tours 
Itiers of Meingnac 
Manassas of Bulles  [1]
Mesud I
Strength
Unknown Unknown
Casualties and losses
Heavy casualties Unknown

The Battle of Mount Cadmus took place near Laodicea, at Chonae, on 6 January 1148, during the Second Crusade.[2] The French crusader army, led by Louis VII of France, was defeated by the Seljuks of Rum.

  1. ^ Phillips, Jonathan, The Second Crusade: Extending the frontiers of Christendom, (Yale University Press, 2007), 201.
  2. ^ Nicolle, David and Christa Hook, The Second Crusade 1148: Disaster Outside Damascus, (Osprey Publishing, 2009), 62.

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