Surrender of Bari to Robert Guiscard
Unit appears in:
1071
Summary:
Robert Guiscard, having blockaded the city of Bari with a bridge of boats, forced it to accept terms of surrender on April 15. Already in May he had left for Sicily with 58 ships
Dates:
1071 April 15
Robert Guiscard (
Robert 61
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After blockading Bari with a bridge of boats which shut off the harbour, he succeeded in entering Brindisi, where there had been an atrocity in the previous year (: )
Lupus protospatharius 60.60.8-9
He took the city of Bari on April 15, and sailed to Sicily in July with 58 ships (April 15; July:15. die mensis Aprilis; in mense Iulii)
Lupus protospatharius 60.11-13
The people of Bari came to terms with him in mid-April; then in May he left and reached Palermo with a shipborne army, besieging the city by land and sea (mid-April; May:in medio mens Aprilis; in mens Magi)
Anonymus Barensis 153