The maritime towns of Laodicea, Gabala, Tripoli, Berytus, Sidon, Tyre and Jaffa, and the stronger castles of the Hospitallers and Templars, successively fell; and the whole existence of the Franks was confined to the city and colony of St.
John of Acre, which is sometimes described by the more classic title of Ptolemais.
[Footnote 102: The chronology of the two dynasties of Mamalukes, the Baharites, Turks or Tartars of Kipzak, and the Borgites, Circassians, is given by Pocock (Prolegom.

ad Abulpharag.p.

6--31) and De Guignes (tom.i.p.

264--270;) their history from Abulfeda, Macrizi, &c., to the beginning of the xvth century, by the same M.De Guignes, (tom.iv.

p.
110--328.)] [Footnote 103: Savary, Lettres sur l'Egypte, tom.ii.lettre xv.