04-21-2006, 12:05 PM
At the risk of becomeing very OT....
The BBC (Timewatch) had a good docco last week about the events leading up to the fall of Jerusalem. The subject was a new castle at Jacob's Ford (Vadum Iacob) which threathened to upset the balance of power. The castle was besieged by Saladin and fell before it could be relieved by king Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (August 1179).
I would like to add that Saladin killed many of the captives. Imad ad-Din says that of the 700 or so prisoners taken, the greater part were massacred, while the rest went to the Damascus slave markets.
Something often mentioned about Richard, while Saladin often gets off with his (indeed!) very lenient treating of the garrison and population of Jerusalem.
The fall of the fort and the ravaging of the Safad region (once founded as a Roman town during the 2nd c. AD) lead to the battle of Hattin in 1187 and the eventual downfall of the kingdom of Jerusalem. Read more here.
The BBC (Timewatch) had a good docco last week about the events leading up to the fall of Jerusalem. The subject was a new castle at Jacob's Ford (Vadum Iacob) which threathened to upset the balance of power. The castle was besieged by Saladin and fell before it could be relieved by king Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (August 1179).
I would like to add that Saladin killed many of the captives. Imad ad-Din says that of the 700 or so prisoners taken, the greater part were massacred, while the rest went to the Damascus slave markets.
Something often mentioned about Richard, while Saladin often gets off with his (indeed!) very lenient treating of the garrison and population of Jerusalem.
The fall of the fort and the ravaging of the Safad region (once founded as a Roman town during the 2nd c. AD) lead to the battle of Hattin in 1187 and the eventual downfall of the kingdom of Jerusalem. Read more here.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
