Dave and I took a taxi up to the Citadel, built by Saladin after the
Battle of the Horns of Hattin to protect Cairo from Crusader
invasions. (The Crusaders did invade, but they never reached the
Citadel and Saladin's dynasty fell to the Mamlouks.) The current
fortifications date to the period just after Napoleon's invasion, and
they housed the Egyptian and British armies for most of the 1800s.
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