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===Fourth mission=== [[Image:SiegeOfAcre1291.jpg|thumb|With the [[Fall of Acre]] in May 1291, the last major Christian city in the Levant disappeared.]] Arghun then sent a fourth mission to European courts in 1290, led by a certain Andrew Zagan (or Chagan), who was accompanied by Buscarel of Gisolfe and a Christian named Sahadin.<ref>Runciman, p.402</ref> As a result, with Acre in great danger, [[Pope Nicolas IV]] proclaimed a Crusade and negotiated agreements with Arghun, [[Hetoum II]] of Armenia, the [[Jacobite Syrian Christian Church|Jacobites]], the [[Ethiopians]] and the [[Georgians]]. On January 5, 1291, he addressed a vibrant prayer to all the Christians to save the Holy Land, and predicators started to rally Christians to follow Edward I in a Crusade.<ref>Dailliez, p.324-325</ref> However, all these attempts to mount a combined offensive were too little and too late. On May 18th 1291, [[Saint-Jean-d'Acre]] was conquered by the Mamluks in the [[Siege of Acre (1291)|Siege of Acre]]. In August 1291, Nicholas IV wrote a letter to Arghun informing him of the plans of Edward I to go on a Crusade to recapture the Holy Land, and explaining that the Crusade could only be successful with the help of the "powerful arm" of the Mongols.<ref>Schein, p.809</ref> He asked Arghun to reiceive baptism and to march against the Mamluks.<ref>Jackson, p.169</ref> However Arghun himself had died on March 10, 1291, and Pope Nicholas IV would die in March 1292, putting an end to their efforts towards combined action.<ref>Runciman, p.412</ref> Edward I sent an ambassador to Arghun's successor [[Gaikhatu]] in 1292 in the person of [[Geoffrey de Langley]], but extensive contacts would only resume under Arghun's son [[Ghazan]]. According to the 20th century historian Runciman, "Had the Mongol alliance been achieved and honestly implemented by the West, the existence of [[Outremer]] would almost certainly have been prolonged. The Mameluks would have been crippled if not destroyed; and the Ilkhanate of Persia would have survived as a power friendly to the Christians and the West"<ref name=runciman-402>Runciman, p.402</ref>
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