Battle of Ramla (1102)

Second Battle of Ramla
Part of the Crusades

Two Hundred Knights Attack Twenty Thousand Saracens. Illustration by Gustave Doré (1877)
Date17 May 1102
Location
Ramla, border line between Crusaders and Fatimids (modern Israel)
Result Fatimid victory
Belligerents
Fatimid Caliphate Kingdom of Jerusalem
Commanders and leaders
Sharaf al-Ma'ali Baldwin I of Jerusalem
Stephen of Blois 
Strength
Modern estimates:
3,000–5,000[1]
Contemporary sources:

20,000
200 knights[2]
Casualties and losses
Unknown Nearly 200

The Second Battle of Ramla (or Ramleh) took place on 17 May 1102 between the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Fatimids of Egypt.[3]

  1. ^ Stevenson 1907, p. 39.
  2. ^ Verbruggen 1997, p. 10.
  3. ^ Pringle, Denys (1993). The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Corpus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 183. ISBN 0-521-39037-0.

Battle of Ramla (1102)

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