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Topic: Damietta, Siege of
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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.

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress."

― H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, Vol 2 (1920)