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Mamluks

  • Battle of Mount Tabor (1799)Napoleon Bonaparte stood in Nazareth on the 16th of April 1799, staring at a map that showed his army trapped between Acre and a massive Ottoman force.
  • MamlukIn the 9th century, the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim began purchasing young male slaves from the Eurasian Steppe to serve as his personal guard.