That year, Manuel sent a large Byzantine fleet of some 300 ships to assist Amalric, and the town of Damietta was placed under siege.

Along with King John, who was elected leader of the crusade, the fleets sailed to Egypt and besieged Damietta at the mouth of the Nile in May.

Al-Kamil retreated to the nearby fortress of al-Mansurah, but the crusaders remained in Damietta throughout 1219 and 1220, awaiting the arrival of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, while King John returned to Acre briefly to defend against al-Mu ' azzam, who was raiding the kingdom from Damascus in John's absence.

During Louis ' captivity, Turanshah was overthrown by his Mamluk soldiers, led by the general Aybak, who then released Louis in May in return for Damietta and a large ransom.

He had begun with the rapid capture of the port of Damietta in June 1249, an attack which did cause some disruption in the Muslim Ayyubid empire, especially as the current sultan was on his deathbed.

His release was eventually negotiated, in return for a ransom of 400, 000 livres tournois ( at the time France's annual revenue was only about 1, 250, 000 livres tournois ), and the surrender of the city of Damietta.

Pliny the Elder writes that, in his time, the best location in Egypt for capturing this animal was in the Saite nome ; the animal could still be found along the Damietta branch after the Arab Conquest in 639.

He managed to capture Damietta, but within a few years he was expelled from Egypt by one of Nur ad-Din's generals, Saladin, who would later become Jerusalem's greatest threat.

Tell el-Balamun was the most northerly city of Pharaonic Egypt, located at ( 31. 2586 North, 31. 5714 East ), about 29 km southwest of Damietta.

In 1249 he was with King Louis at Damietta.

The legate Pelagius of Albano, however, claimed the command ; and insisting on the advance from Damietta, in spite of John's warnings, he refused to accept the favourable terms of the sultan, as the king advised, until it was too late.

In 1218, the fortress of Damietta in the Nile Delta was besieged by the Crusaders.

When Ayyub, who was in Syria at the time, heard of this, he rushed back to Egypt, avoiding Damietta, instead reaching Mansurah.

Hawass was born in Damietta, Egypt.

In June 1218 the crusaders began their siege of Damietta, and despite resistance from the unprepared sultan Al-Adil, the tower outside the city was taken on August 25.

This march was observed by the forces of Al-Kamil, and frequent raids along the flanks of the army led to the withdrawal of some 2000 German troops who refused to continue the advance and returned to Damietta.

Nonetheless, Egypt was the object of his crusade, and he landed in 1249 at Damietta on the Nile.

On June 6 Damietta was taken with little resistance from the Egyptians, who withdrew further up the Nile.

Louis was defeated as well, but he did not withdraw to Damietta for months, preferring to besiege Mansourah, which ended in starvation and death for the crusaders rather than the Muslims.

In March 1250 Louis finally tried to return to Damietta, but he was taken captive at the of Battle of Fariskur where his army was annihilated.

In May he was ransomed for 800, 000 bezants, half of which was to be paid before the King left Egypt, with Damietta also being surrendered as a term in the agreement.

For the first of these, he raised a large sum and a substantial force, arriving in Damietta on 24 October 1249, after the town had already been captured.

Due to famine and disease after the Nile failed to flood, al-Kamil could not defend Damietta and it was captured in November 1219.

This was done because the Sultan foresaw the necessity of exchanging them for the more crucial defenses at Damietta on the Nile Delta, which had been captured by the forces of the Fifth Crusade who were now threatening Cairo.

In 1248, Louis IX of France went on the Seventh Crusade, but after the defeat of the crusaders, he was captured near Damietta in Egypt.

In return for the Templars calling off their siege at Damietta, the Islamic forces would return many Frankish soldiers, halt attacks on Jerusalem and most importantly, return the part of the True Cross, captured from the Europeans at the Battle of Hattin.

Their commander, Louis IX, attempted to enlist the Mongols to launch a coordinated attack on Egypt, but when this failed to materialize, the Crusader force sailed to Damietta and the Muslims there fled as soon as they landed.

In 1218 al-Kamil led the defense during the Siege of Damietta against the Fifth Crusade, and later that year became sultan when his father died.

Louis was taken prisoner when Damietta was recaptured, but John seems to have escaped the same fate.

At “ various times, Armenian money lenders held the sole rights of exploiting the Cairo bathhouses, the salt mines of Matariya and the fish market of Damietta .” The influence of the Armenian money lenders increased even more during the 1830s, when due to the Russo-Turkish war and open persecution of Armenians, many merchants and financiers settles in Egypt and even succeeded in launching Egypt ’ s first bank, which operated from 1837 to 1841.

The crusaders were unable to cross the Nile, and, suffering from disease and lack of supplies, retreated towards Damietta in April.

They could not gain Damietta itself, and in the ensuing months diseases killed many of the crusaders, including Robert of Courcon.

The terms of this surrender meant the relinquishing of Damietta to Al-Kamil in exchange for the release of the crusaders.

Control of Damietta meant control of the Nile, and from there the crusaders believed they would be able to conquer Egypt.

Raymond-Roupen approached the crusaders at Damietta in 1219 for support in claiming Cilician Armenia, and was able to return in 1221 with some of them and promises from the Papal legate Pelagius.

On June 1249, the crusaders landed in the abandoned town of Damietta, at the mouth of the Nile river.

The news of the death of as-Salih Ayyub reached the crusaders in Damietta in a way or another.

In June 1249, the Seventh Crusade under Louis IX of France landed in Egypt and took Damietta.

In 1249 Louis IX of France invaded Egypt on the Seventh Crusade, and occupied Damietta.

In 1249 John joined the Seventh Crusade and participated in Louis IX of France's capture of Damietta.

After the death of as-Salih Ayyub during the Frankish invasion of Damietta in 1249 and the tragic murder of his heir and son Turanshah in 1250, Shajar al-Durr, the widow of as-Salih Ayyub, with the help and support of the Mamluks of her late husband, seized the throne and became the Sultana of Egypt.

On April 1249, al-Salih Ayyub, the Ayyubid Sultan and husband of Shajar al-Durr who was gravely sick in Syria, returned to Egypt and stayed in Ashmum-Tanah, near Damietta after he heard that King Louis IX of France had assembled a crusade army in Cyprus and was about to launch an attack against Egypt.