The Ayyubid army was the force Saladin united from Egypt and Muslim Syria. It included regular troops and mamluk (slave-soldier) units; in 1177 Saladin led a force of some 26,000 soldiers into southern Palestine. His general Qaraqush separately conquered Tripoli with an army of Turks, Kurds and Bedouin Arab troops, illustrating the force's mixed composition. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Force TypeMixed regular and mamluk (slave-soldier) army 1 Founded Year Force Type
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Saladin led a force of some 26,000 soldiers
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the medieval Sultanate of Egypt, which was established by Saladin in 1171, following his abolition of the Fatimid Caliphate
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The walls were constantly pounded by the siege engines, catapults, mangonels, petraries, Greek fire, crossbows, and arrows.
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The Muslims positioned themselves between the Frankish army and the water so that the Franks were forced to pitch camp overnight on the arid plateau near the village of Meskenah.
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The Battle of Hattin took place on 4 July 1187, between the Crusader states of the Levant and the forces of the Ayyubid Sultanate of Egypt, led by Sultan Saladin.
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Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (c. 1137 - 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty and the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria.
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