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====Assembly of a raiding naval force==== In a concrete example of military collaboration, a maritime raiding force consisting in two war galleys was prepared in [[Baghdad]] by a corps of Genoese, in order to curtail the maritime trade of the Mamluks. A contingent of 800 Genoese carpenters and sailors was sent in 1290 to Baghdad, as well as a force of arbaletiers, but the enterprise apparently foundered when the Genoese government ultimatey disowned the project, and an internal fight erupted at the [[Persian Gulf]] port of [[Basra]] among the Geneose (between the Guelfe and the Gibelin families).<ref>"Only a contingent of 800 Genoese arrived, whom he (Arghun) employed in 1290 in building shipd at Baghdad, with a view to harassing Egyptian commerce at the southern approaches to the Red Sea", p.169, Peter Jackson, ''The Mongols and the West''</ref><ref>Jean Richard, p.468</ref>
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