This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ...should he persist in his design the Turks would sell their lives dearly, and would probably occasion him the loss of some of his bravest soldiers, accepted the sign and returned to the camp. The five emirs now issued forth and repeated their former offer, which was again rejected; but permission was granted ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ...should he persist in his design the Turks would sell their lives dearly, and would probably occasion him the loss of some of his bravest soldiers, accepted the sign and returned to the camp. The five emirs now issued forth and repeated their former offer, which was again rejected; but permission was granted them, as before, to visit Saladin, and to try what terms they could wring from him by a representation of their miserable circumstances. They returned with an offer from the sultan, that he would restore Jerusalem, the Holy Cross, and all the towns and castles which he had taken in Palestine after the battle of Tiberias, when Guy of Lusignan was taken prisoner. He offered, moreover, to set free all his Qhristian captives, upon the condition, that the garrison of Acre should be dismissed, and that the kings of England and France should assist him with six thousand horsemen and twenty thousand infantry, in repelling an invasion made by the sons of his predecessor Noureddin, who had already conquered his uncle Tokeddin, and possessed themselves of the greater part of Mesopotamia. This proposal was at once rejected by the kings, who, unlike Amaury, refused to make or meddle with the intestine disputes of the Saracens; and the emirs, finding their whole overtures rejected, returned in sorrow and despair to the city. On the succeeding day, which was the seventh of July, 1191, Philip of France made an assault upon the town, but was driven back, with the loss of several men. On the eighth, Saladin burned the town of Caiphae, on the south side of the bay of Acre, which had been for some time in the hands of the crusaders, and destroyed all the vineyards. Two more days were spent in preparation, and on the eleventh, the English and Pisans advanced to...
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