The French army disembarking in Africa, led by the Duke of Bourbon, holding a shield bearing the royal arms of France (15th century miniature)
Date
July 1 – October 1, 1390
Location
Mahdia, Hafsid Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia)
Result
Hafsid victory
Crusader withdrawal
Territorial changes
Status quo ante bellum
Belligerents
Kingdom of France Republic of Genoa
Hafsids Zayyanid Kingdom Emirate of Béjaïa
Commanders and leaders
Louis II of Bourbon Giacomo Fregoso
Ahmad II Abu Tashufin II
Strength
6,000 knights and soldiers 60 ships
40,000 men
Casualties and losses
274
Unknown
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Crusading movement
In the Holy Land (1095–1291)
First
1101
Norwegian
Venetian
1129
Second
Third
1197
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth
Barons'
Seventh
1267
Catalan
Eighth
Lord Edward's
Fall of Outremer
Later Crusades (1291–1717)
Crusades after Acre, 1291–1399
Aragonese
Smyrniote
Alexandrian
Savoyard
Barbary
1390
1398
1399
Nicopolis
Varna
Holy Leagues
1332
1495
1511
1526
1535
1538
1571
1594
1684
1717
Northern (1147–1410)
Kalmar
Wendish
Swedish
1150
1249
1293
Livonian
Prussian
Lithuanian
Russian
Against heretics (1209–1485)
Albigensian
Drenther
Stedinger
Bosnian
Bohemian
Despenser's
Hussite
Popular (1096–1320)
People's (1096)
Children's
Shepherds' (1251)
Crusade of the Poor
Shepherds' (1320)
Reconquista (722–1492)
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