First Battle of Ramla (1101)

Also known as Ramla 1101

On 7 September 1101, Baldwin I of Jerusalem met a Fatimid invasion army at Ramla, the strategic crossroads on the Jerusalem–Jaffa road. With only 260 knights and about 900 infantry — a force outnumbered perhaps tenfold — the king nonetheless ordered a ferocious mounted charge after his initial line buckled. Heavy casualties on both sides included some eighty Frankish knights, but the Fatimid commander Saad al-Daulah was killed in the fighting and his army broke and fled south. The victory secured the kingdom's interior for another year and confirmed the lethal shock value of the disciplined Frankish heavy cavalry charge.

Coordinates: 31.9290°, 34.8720°

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