How King Baldwin’s 500 Knights Defeated Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard

Описание: How King Baldwin’s 500 Knights Crushed Saladin’s 26,000 in a Single Afternoon | Battle of Montgisard
They called him cursed.
November 25th, 1177.
A sixteen-year-old king, dying of leprosy, was strapped to his horse because his legs no longer obeyed him.
Across the plain stood Saladin—26,000 seasoned warriors, undefeated, unstoppable.
Baldwin IV had just 500 knights.
His advisors begged him to retreat behind Jerusalem’s walls.
His body was already failing him.
Logic, numbers, and survival all demanded the same thing: run.
Instead, Baldwin ordered a charge.
What followed defied every law of medieval warfare.
In less than three hours, Saladin’s army collapsed.
Nearly 20,000 of Islam’s finest soldiers lay dead or scattered.
The teenage king—half-paralyzed, half-alive—had done the impossible.
This is the Battle of Montgisard.
Where faith collided with numbers.
Where a dying boy shattered an empire’s confidence in a single afternoon.

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