 Plans for combined operations between the Franks and the Mongols were again made for the following winter offensives , in 1301 and 1302 . But in mid @-@ 1301 the island of Ruad was attacked by the Egyptian Mamluks . After a lengthy siege , the island surrendered in 1302 or 1303 . The Mamluks slaughtered many of the inhabitants , and captured the surviving Templars to send them to prison in Cairo . In late 1301 , Ghazan sent letters to the pope asking him to send troops , priests , and peasants , to make the Holy Land a Frank state again . 
