Miniature of the sack of Alexandria (1365), Reims, from manuscript of music by Guillaume de Machaut
Date
9–12 October 1365
Location
Alexandria, Mamluk Sultanate
Result
Crusaders sack the city and later retreat due to a Mamluk host approaching
Cypriots control the city for three days then abandon it
Belligerents
Kingdom of Cyprus
Republic of Venice
Knights Hospitaller
Mamluk Sultanate
Commanders and leaders
Peter I of Cyprus Florimont de Lesparre Robert Hales Ferlino d 'Airasca Stephen Scrope
Sultan Al-Ashraf Sha'ban
Emir Yalbugha al-Umari
Strength
165 ships
Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown
5,000 civilians enslaved[1]
20,000 civilians killed[1]
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The brief Alexandrian Crusade, also called the sack of Alexandria,[2] occurred in October 1365 and was led by Peter I of Cyprus against Alexandria in Egypt. Although often referred to as and counted among the Crusades, it was relatively devoid of religious impetus and differs from the more prominent Crusades in that it seems to have been motivated largely by economic interests and was not called or endorsed by the Pope.[3]
^ abSack of Alexandria (1365), Alexander Mikaberidze, Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia, Vol.1, ed. Alexander Mikaberidze, (ABC-CLIO, 2011), 72.
^A History of the Crusades: The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, ed. Kenneth M. Setton, Harry W. Hazard, (The University of Wisconsin Press, 1975), xiii, 5, 316, 664
^"Van Steenbergen, Jo (2003) "The Alexandrian Crusade (1365) and the Mamluk Sources: Reassessment of the kitab al-ilmam of an-Nuwayri al-Iskandarani" (PDF)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-10-18. Retrieved 2006-09-03.
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