Second Battle of Ramla | |||||||
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Part of the Crusades | |||||||
Two Hundred Knights Attack Twenty Thousand Saracens. Illustration by Gustave Doré (1877) | |||||||
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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]