After falling for a feigned retreat Kit Boga would be captured and the Mongols would be turned away from the Middle East in, FTP, what 1260 battle that saw the ascendancy of the Mamelukes under Baybars?
One side had prepared to fight ever since executing the emissary who carried the note that began "This is the word of he who rules the earth... submit."  Precipitated by victories at Aleppo and Damascus earlier in the year, the result of this encounter was echoed by a subsequent battle that saw Abaka and Kalawun, the successors of the commanders engaged in the original struggle, meet at Homs. Three toumans of the invading force were left in the field after Hulagu was recalled by the death of Mangku.  The sultan Kotuz sought to press this momentary advantage and sent out 120,000 ghulams to meet a force made up overwhelmingly of light cavalry on the Plain of Esdraleon.  After falling for a feigned retreat Kit Boga would be captured and the Mongols would be turned away from the Middle East in, FTP, what 1260 battle that saw the ascendancy of the Mamelukes under Baybars?
One side had prepared to fight ever since executing the emissary who carried the note that began "
Ain Jalut