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Updated: May 25, 2025

The Crusaders made their influence felt, and many are the traces of their period in this ancient city, but Askalon always had more Crusader support. Napoleon's attack on Gaza found Abdallah's army in a very different state of preparedness from von Kress's Turkish army.

William Thomas Massey - How Jerusalem Was Won: Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine