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Title: Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931
Subjects: Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1137-1193
Publisher: London Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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seventy-five days they had overrun andsubdued the Kingdom of Jerusalem ; now they musthave the capital itself, the cause and motive of theCrusades, the object of the veneration of Christianand Moslem alike. Saladin first took up his posi-tion on the west side, facing the line of walls fromthe gate of David to the gate of Saint Stephen. Hewas amazed to see the battlements packed withcountless defenders, who indeed could not find roomin the crowded houses and churches. He soon dis-covered that the ground was ill-chosen, for the greattowers of Tancred and David (or the Castle of thePisans, as it was then called) commanded his bat-teries, and the frequent sallies of the Christians droveback his engineers and opposed the erection of hismangonels. Moreover, the sun was in the eyes ofthe Moslems, and they could not see to fight till theafternoon by reason of the glare. He therefore re-connoitred the other sides of the city, and after fivedays transferred his army to the east, overlooking the
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rERRA 0AJICTA. IT JERUSALEM:ad udunvperegviixorum.e coclice saecukXll.BoberiL dLtrvmara. de. Hiarce. occupation*.,et Fulrhjerni. carnot yc-itu pcrty tn biblwlh.JSna&ll acrvaU PLAN OF JERUSALEM. (FROM A 12TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT.) M87) Siege of Jerusalem. 227 valley of the Kidron, where the walls were less strong.He moved in the evening of the 25th of September,and the inhabitants, seeing him depart, thought hehad abandoned the siege, and ran to the churchesto pour out their thanksgivings and indulge in trans-ports of joy. But on the morrow weeping followedhard upon laughter : the Saracen standards were fly-ing on Mount Olivet; already twoscore mangonelswere in position, and the engineers, who had workedall night, were beginning to mine the barbican.* Tenthousand Moslem cavalry masked the gates of St.Stephen and Josaphat, and prevented sallies, andthe sappers pushed forward under a shield-wall, cov-ered by the arrows of the archers and the stonesand Greek fire discharged from the eng

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