Any sort of significant expedition meant risking defeat in the field, or a sudden descent on Damietta and loss of the city. |
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A Frisian fleet arrived in 1218, and it was John and the Frisians who decided to attack at Damietta. |
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Port Said, Kosseir, Baltim, Damietta and Alexandria have the least temperature variation in Egypt. |
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Leopold and John of Brienne besieged and captured Damietta but an army advancing into Egypt was compelled to surrender. |
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Snow falls on Sinai's mountains and some of the north coastal cities such as Damietta, Baltim and Sidi Barrani, and rarely in Alexandria. |
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The Abbasids used Alexandria, Damietta, Aden and Siraf as entry ports to India and China. |
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The Orthodox bishop was based in Damietta in the church of Agios Nikolaos. |
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Louis was defeated at Mansura and captured as he retreated to Damietta. |
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