Battle of Ager Sanguinis (Field of Blood)

Timeline

1. 1119Antioch · AntiochAntioch's regent Roger of Salerno marched east with knights and infantry to relieve the besieged castle of Aleppo; Ilghazi gathered Turkmen and Artuqid forces from the Mesopotamian frontier and set an ambush north of Samarda.
2. 1119Ager Sanguinis (Field of Blood) · SyriaTurkish cavalry feigned retreat to lure the enemy; once the Crusaders had separated from their baggage and infantry, they were outflanked. Roger was killed, many nobles and knights fell, and only a few hundred survivors fled back to Antioch; the battlefield was strewn with corpses, giving it the name 'Field of Blood'.
3. 1119Antioch · AntiochAfter the routed troops returned to Antioch, the city's defenses were maintained by regent queen Alice and the clergy; King Baldwin II of Jerusalem then came to the rescue, and the Crusader states faced succession and defense reorganization, halting Antioch's eastward expansion.