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===Mamluk counter-offensive (July-September 1302)=== Through the summer however, the Mamluks were back on the offensive. In July 1302, the Mamluks attacked Cilician Armenia. They captured the city of [[Sis]].<ref>Luisetto, p.221</ref> They would next turn their attention to the Franks in Ruad, to expell them from their last foothold in the Levant. ====Loss of Ruad==== {{main|Siege of Ruad}} In September 1302, a [[Mamluk]] fleet of 16 ships left [[Egypt]] and reached [[Tripoli]] to assemble a fighting force. The fleet then attacked the island of Ruad and disembarked in two points. The island had been occupied by 120 Templar [[knights]], 500 bowmen and 400 men and women serving the garrison, all under the command of [[Barthélemy de Quincy]], Marshall of the Order of the [[Knight Templars]]. After some fighting, the Muslims managed to establish themselves on the island, and started the siege of the fortifications. Barthélemy de Quincy died in the ensuing combat. The Templars finally surrendered on September 26th, at the condition that they could safely escape to a Christian land of their choice. However the Mamluks did not respect the agreement. All the bowmen and Syrian Christians were executed, and the Templars were taken prisoners to [[Cairo]], where they died of starvation after during years of ill-treatment.<ref>"Nearly 40 of these men were still in prison in [[Cairo]] years later where, according to a former fellow prisoner, the Genoese Matthew Zaccaria, they died of starvation, having refused an offer of 'many riches and goods' in return for apostatising"" The Trial of the Templars, Malcolm Barber, p.22</ref>
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