Siege of Acre (1291)

Siege of Acre (1291)
Part of the Crusades
Matthieu de Clermont défend Ptolémaïs en 1291, by Dominique Papety (1815–49) at Salles des Croisades in Versailles
Date 4 April – 18 May 1291 Location Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem 32°56′N 35°05′E / 32.933°N 35.083°E / 32.933; 35.083 Result Decisive Mamluk victory End of the Levant Crusades Territorial changes Acre captured by the Mamluks
Belligerents
Mamluk Sultanate Ayyubid remnant emirate of Hama	Kingdom of Jerusalem (in union with Cyprus) Knights Templar Knights Hospitaller Teutonic Order Order of St. Thomas Order of St. Lazarus
Commanders and leaders
Al-Ashraf Khalil Hussam ad-Din Lajin Al-Muzaffar III Mahmud Baybars al-Mansuri Siraj al-Din Dhabyan Sayf al-Din Bilban	Henry II, King of Jerusalem and Cyprus Amalric of Tyre Guillaume de Beaujeu † Thibaud Gaudin Pierre de Severy † Jean de Villiers Matthew of Clermont † Konrad von Feuchtwangen Otto de Grandson Jean de Grailly  (DOW)
Strength
Unknown	Acre: 15,000[1] Cyprus: 700[2]
Casualties and losses
Unknown	10,000+[3]

The siege of Acre (also called the fall of Acre) took place in 1291 and resulted in the Crusaders' losing control of Acre to the Mamluks. It is considered one of the most important battles of the period. Although the crusading movement continued for several more centuries, the capture of the city marked the end of further crusades to the Levant. When Acre fell, the Crusaders lost their last major stronghold of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. They still maintained a fortress at the northern city of Tartus (now in north-western Syria), engaged in some coastal raids, and attempted an incursion from the tiny island of Ruad; but, when they lost that, too, in a siege in 1302, the Crusaders no longer controlled any part of the Holy Land.^[4]