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The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.

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Fifth Crusade

1217–1221 attempted conquest of the Holy Land

The Fifth Crusade was a campaign in a series of Crusades by Western Europeans to reacquire Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land by first conquering Egypt, ruled by the powerful Ayyubid sultanate, led by al-Adil, brother of Saladin.
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Acre, Israel

City in Israel

Acre, known in Hebrew as Akko and in Arabic as Akka, is a city in the coastal plain region of the Northern District of Israel.
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Egypt

Country spanning Africa and Asia

Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip of Palestine and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to…
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