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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 history's most ferocious warriors. ♪

Major port city at the time was acre. >> the city of acre on the northern coast of present-day israel was an entry point for the maritime trade that flourished across the mediterranean. >> it was an actual economic and political capital of the crusader project in the middle east. it was very important for them because the port of acre is huge. the city is large. >> king guy has not gotten any men, but he knows that he has to give them a target, something to fight for. and he decides to attack the city of acre. >> if they could capture it, they could defend the coast, then, and mount a charge o...

The city. >> solodyn leading from the front but he's 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.

Gradually he built it himself, a group of followers became stronger and stronger. after 629, he was able to concord meccah and control much of the western. >> jerusalem is a holy city for christians chltd this is a place where jesus died. he was crucified outside of the city. >> jerusalem is portrayed as being right at the center of the world. you have africa to the south, asia to the north and europe to the west, they literally imagine jerusalem to be the naval of the world. >> for muslims is the size of the prophet. >> from the dome of the rock. the prophet ascended on a horse with wings to ...