Today in History: Saint Louis's Greatest Victory Over Jihad

Today in history, on June 6, Louis IX of France — better known to posterity as Saint Louis — scored a dramatic victory over the Islamic jihad.
It was late May, 1249, and the Seventh Crusade had begun....

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