When the fleet arrived, the city’s garrison was absent, participating in festivities in the capital, Fustat. The inhabitants hastily abandoned the undefended city, which the daring Byzantines seized after minor...
Byzantine Arabs wars
His reinforced fleet, trained in the gymnasia and equipped with Greek fire, set ablaze the Arab fleet, or as the chronicler Theophanes vividly states, “He set fire to the Arab...
When the fleet arrived, the city’s garrison was absent, participating in festivities in the capital, Fustat. The inhabitants hastily abandoned the undefended city, which the daring Byzantines seized after minor...
His reinforced fleet, trained in the gymnasia and equipped with Greek fire, set ablaze the Arab fleet, or as the chronicler Theophanes vividly states, “He set fire to the Arab...