Baibars: The Slave Who Stopped Empires

I bet you didn’t know a former slave defeated the Mongols. And wiped out the Crusaders.

In 1260, at the Battle of Ain Jalut, a man named Baibars changed world history.

Baibars was not born royal. He was captured as a child. Sold into slavery.

Trained as a Mamluk, a soldier raised only for war. That training made him lethal.

At the time, the Mongols were unstoppable. They had destroyed Baghdad.

Flattened cities. No army had ever stopped them. Europe feared them. The Middle East

was collapsing. Everyone believed the Mongols could not be beaten. Everyone was wrong.

In Palestine, Baibars helped lure the Mongol army forward. He pretended to