Battle of Cresson (1187)

Also known as Springs of Cresson, Cresson

On 1 May 1187, two months before the catastrophe at Hattin, a small Templar and Hospitaller force led by the Templar grand master Gerard of Ridefort intercepted a far larger Ayyubid raiding column near the Springs of Cresson, just outside Nazareth. Despite repeated warnings that the enemy outnumbered them ten to one, Gerard ordered an immediate charge. The result was a slaughter: the Hospitaller master Roger des Moulins was killed, and only Gerard and three knights escaped. The destruction of nearly a hundred trained military religious in a single afternoon stripped the kingdom of irreplaceable veterans on the very eve of Saladin's main invasion.

Coordinates: 32.7186°, 35.4017°

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