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====Frankish interventions (Feb-July 1300)==== [[Image:JacquesdeMolay.jpg|thumb|[[Jacques de Molay]] was one of the leaders contacted by Ghazan, in an attempt to coordinate military operations]] Finally in early 1300, two Frank rulers, [[Guy d'Ibelin]] and [[Jean II de Giblet]], had moved in with their troops from Cyprus in response to Ghazan's earlier call, and established a base in the castle of Nefin in [[Gibelet]] on the Syrian coast with the intention of joining him, but Ghazan was already gone.<ref>Demurger, p.144</ref><ref>"After Ghazan had left, some Christians from Cyprus arrived in [[Gibelet]] and Nefin, led by Guy, [[Count of Jaffa]], and Jean d'Antioche with their knights, and from there proceeded to go to Armenia where the camp of the Tatars was. But Ghazan was gone, so they had to return."|Le Templier de Tyr, 614. - Le Templier de Tyr, 614: "Et apres que Cazan fu partis aucuns crestiens de Chipre estoient ales a Giblet et a Nefin et en seles terres de seles marines les quels vous nomeray: Guy conte de Jaffe et messire Johan dantioche et lor chevaliers; et de la cuyderent aler en Ermenie quy estoit a lost des Tatars. Cazan sen estoit retornes: il se mist a revenir"</ref> They also started to besiege the new city of Tripoli, but in vain.<ref>Jean Richard, p.481</ref> They soon had to reembark for Cyprus. The Mongol leader [[Mahmud Ghazan|Ghazan]] had sent letters in late 1299 requesting Frankish help, primarily with naval operations.<ref name=demurger-147>Demurger, p.147</ref> Naval operations were mounted in July 1300. A fleet of sixteen galleys with some smaller vessels was equipped in Cyprus,<ref>According to the "Chronicle of Cyprus", by Florio Bustron, quoted in in "Adh-Dhababi's Record of the Destruction of Damascus by the Mongols in 1299-1301", Note 18, p.359</ref><ref name=demurger-147/><ref name=schein-811/>, commanded by [[King Henry II of Jerusalem]], the king of Cyprus, accompanied by his brother, [[Amalric, Lord of Tyre]] and the heads of the military orders. The banner of the Mongol [[Il-Khan]] was hoisted on the boats, because Ghazan's ambassador was onboard.<ref>"The banner of the Mongol [[Il-Khan]] was hoisted on the boats, because he [Ghazan's ambassador] was onboard" ("La banniere de l'Ilkhan fut hissee sur les bateaux parce qu'il etait a bord"), Demurger, "Jacques de Molay", p.147</ref><ref>Templar of Tyre: "At [[Rosetta]] Our men returned to their galleys, and then the Saracens saw Ghazan's banner on our galleys. Ghazan's envoys, whom Ghazan had sent to the king in Cyprus, had placed it there and had raised it over our galleys. Because of Ghazan's banner, four Tartars who were with the forty mounted Saracens that I have mentioned and now had been held there by the Saracens as if in prison, spurred their horses and came galloping up to our galleys. Our men received them..."</ref> The ships left [[Famagusta]] on July 20, 1300, to raid the coasts of Egypt and Syria: [[Rosette]],<ref name=demurger-147/> [[Alexandria]], [[Acre]], [[Tortosa]], and [[Maraclea]], before returning to Cyprus.<ref name=schein-811>Schein, 1979, p. 811</ref> According to the French historian Jean Richard, the raids along the way were directed by Admiral [[Baudoin de Picquigny]], who was accompanied onboard by the envoy of the Mongols [[Isol the Pisan]], and when the raids took place at Alexandria, they were able to free Christian prisoners who had been captive since the Fall of Acre in 1291.<ref>Jean Richard, p.481</ref> The ships then returned to Cyprus, and prepared for an attack on Tortosa in late 1300. In a May 18th 1300 letter from [[Lerida]], [[James II of Aragon]] also sent a congratulation letter to Ghazan "King of the Kings of all the Levant (...) elected by the Omnipotent to take revenge on his enemies and recover the Holy Land",<ref>"Adh-Dhababi's Record of the Destruction of Damascus by the Mongols in 1299-1301", Note 18, p.359</ref> and offered to procure him ships, troops and supplies in exchange for one fifth of the territory of the Holy Land.<ref>Luisetto, p.116</ref><ref>Schein, p.819</ref>
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