Alexandrian Crusade. The Alexandrian Crusade (1365). An attack by Peter I of Cyprus that resulted in the destruction of Alexandria, but had little real impact. Accounts of the crusade was given by Guillaume de Machaut in his "La Prise d'Alexandre" (after 1369) and by Muslim historian al-Nuwayrī in his "Kitāb al-Ilmām" (1365–1374).