Battle of La Forbie

Battle of La Forbie
Part of the Crusades
Date October 17, 1244 – October 18, 1244 Location near the village of Harbiyah (La Forbie), northeast of Gaza Result Ayyubid victory
Belligerents
Ayyubid Sultantate Khwarezmian Mercenaries	Kingdom of Jerusalem Knights Templar Knights Hospitaller Teutonic Knights The Order of Saint Lazarus Homs Oultrejordain Ayyubid Damascus Ayyubid Kerak
Commanders and leaders
as-Salih Ayyub an emir named Baibars (not the known Baibars who became a sultan)	Walter IV of Brienne (POW) Armand de Périgord (POW) as-Salih Ismail an-Nasir Dawud al-Mansur Ibrahim
Strength
5,000 cavalry More than 6,000 infantry	About 11,000
Casualties and losses
Unknown	About 7,500

Kingdom of Jerusalem
Knights Templar
Knights Hospitaller
Teutonic Knights
The Order of Saint Lazarus
Homs
Oultrejordain
Ayyubid Damascus

as-Salih Ayyub

Walter IV of Brienne (POW)
Armand de Périgord (POW)
as-Salih Ismail
an-Nasir Dawud

The Battle of La Forbie, also known as the Battle of Harbiyah, was fought October 17, 1244 – October 18, 1244 between the allied armies (drawn from the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the crusading orders, the breakaway Ayyubids of Damascus, Homs and Kerak) and the Egyptian army of the Ayyubid Sultan as-Salih Ayyub, reinforced with Khwarezmian mercenaries.

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