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A 13th-century depiction of battle outside Antioch from William of Tyre's Histoire d'Outremer, in the care of the British Museum. On Monday 28 June the crusaders emerged from the city gate, [53] with Raymond of Aguilers carrying the Holy Lance before them. Kerbogha hesitated against his generals' pleadings, hoping to attack them all at once ...
The Battle of Antioch (1098) was a military engagement fought between the Christian forces of the First Crusade and a Muslim coalition led by Kerbogha, atabeg of Mosul. Kerbogha's goal was to reclaim Antioch from the Crusaders and affirm his position as a regional power.
Bohemond's troops enter Antioch with Firouz's assistance and the crusaders occupy the town. Yağısıyan's son, Shams ad-Daulah, resists them in the citadel. [59] [60] June 4. Kerbogha's army reaches Antioch and lays siege to the town. [56] June 10. Crusaders start fleeing from Antioch because of starvation and fear. [61] June 14.
The crusaders capture Antioch, a city that the Seljuks seized from the Byzantines in 1083. [20] November. The crusader leaders acknowledge the right of Robert Guiscard's son, Bohemond, to rule Antioch, ignoring their oath to Emperor Alexios. [21] [22] 1101. August–September. The Seljuks annihilate three crusading armies in Anatolia. The ...
Battles of Antioch may refer to: Battle of Antioch (145 BC) or the Battle of the Oenoparus, a battle between Ptolemaic Egypt and the Seleucid Empire; Battle of Antioch (218), a battle between Macrinus and Elagabalus; Siege of Antioch (253), a siege by the Sassanid Empire against the Roman Empire; Battle of Antioch (613), a battle between the ...
After the battle, the Parthians abandoned the region of Antioch, while the Romans wintered in the fortified camps of the Cyrrhestica to guard the fords of the Euphrates. In a letter as early as 8 October 51 BC, [ 11 ] Cicero reported that there were no more Parthians in the area and, although some armed bands had been observed, he judged them ...
The siege of Antioch was a military engagement between the Seljuks of Rum led by Sulieman ibn Qutalmish and the Byzantine garrison of Philaretos. The Seljuk with a small force managed to capture the city in late 1084 while the castle surrendered in early 1085.
After a series of campaigns against the Roman Empire (252-256),Shapur I faced Emperor Valerian in Edessa for the third time, which led to the defeat of the Romans and the capture of Valerian and the high Roman officials [1] Valerian spent the last days of her life in prison [2].After this victory, Shapur decided to launch a new attack on the cities of Antioch, Cilicia and Caesarea. [3]