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Tension reaches a climax in the epic battle between Saracen leader Saladin and Englands Richard the Lionheart during the Third Crusade, with the fate of the...

Tension reaches a climax in the epic battle between Saracen leader Saladin and Englands Richard the Lionheart during the Third Crusade, with the fate of the...

One way were making a difference. king guy has rallied his army outside the walls of jerusalem and marched north. but while he is less experienced than the great muslim leader, king guy believes his army is invincible as long as they fight beneath the true cross. >> when the crusaders captured jerusalem in 1099, they discovered the relic of the true cross. its a small piece of wood that

Further south and try to take all the coastal cities because in this way, he can block jerusalem from any kind of serious enforcement from the west. >> as richard the lionheart and his army moves down the coast, saladin loses battle after battle after battle. >> a great lethal warrior, sort of scattering people in front of him. for saladin. >> its another setback, another humiliation. >> you can imagine a man whos used to winning victory after victory now finding himself losing, and not only los...

Richard received an alarming message. >> his brother is conspireing with phillips to become king of england. richard is essentially pulls into two directions. either he reclaims his throne from john or he solidifies holdings and maintain his defenses. he cant do both at the same time. he recognizes if he stays one moment longer, hell be out of a kingdom. so he decides to go back. >> it is a course of great anger among the troops but as he sees it, it is the only realistic option. >> richard retr...

The treaty of jaffa. >> they realize both that theres a limit to power and to war. the treaty guaranteed that whatever the muslims at that time had in their control would remain in muslim hands. whatever the crusaders had in their control would remain in crusaders hands. >> the christians get jaffa and acre and the coast, and the muslims keep jerusalem and the inlands. >> the treaty of jaffa is the official partition of palestine in history. >> after the treaty of jaffa rushed back to england to...

Desperate efforts to break into acre to relieve the siege. hes leading from the front, but he is unable to break through into acre. >> the result of the battle of acre is that rich the lionheart does something that no one else has been able to do. he hands saladin his first loss at the hands of crusaders. saladin is forced to retreat, and now the crusaders, after almost being wiped out of the holy land, are now reconstituted, re-energized, reinvigorated, and now theyre ready to recapture jerusal...

Further south and try to take. this way he can block from any kind of enforcement from the west. >> as richard the lionheart and his army moves off the coast, solodyn loses battle after battle. for solodyn is another setback. you can imagine a man used to winning victory after victory finding himself losing and losing to this small, rag tag army of crusaders. the best thing he can do is retrieve and guard the city of jerusalem. the crusaders is all about recovering jerusalem.

Mound to pure fide as an islamic shrine. >> while he focuses on jerusalem, the crusaders have regrouped under the command of king guy. >> solodyn allowed king guy to go freely on the condition he goes back to france. guy is not so naive. he recognizes that he still has another card to play. >> in allowing him to live, he allowed him to reinstitute his army. >> king guy is about to be joined with historys most ferocious warriors. ♪

The city. >> solodyn leading from the front but hes unable to breakthrough into acre. >> the result of the battle of acre is that richard the lionheart does something no one else able to do. he hands solodyn his first loss at the hands of crusaders. so solodyn is forced to retrieve and now the crusade everies almost being wiped out of the holy land are recons substituted and reinvigorated and they are ready to recapture jerusalem.