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September 3, 1260

Battle of Ain Jalut

The Mamluk line wavered first, and Qutuz had to rally it in person. The tidy feigned-retreat ambush of popular summaries comes from a pro-Mongol chronicle the Mamluk sources do not corroborate.

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