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Title: The crusaders; or, Scenes, events, and characters, from the times of the crusades
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Keightley, Thomas, 1789-1872
Subjects: Crusades
Publisher: London J.W. Parker
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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se they approved not of
his conduct toward the church; and several of the prin-
cipal knights of Antioch entered the service of Bupin,
prince of Armenia (i. e. Cilicia), who gladly entertained
them. The king's disorder had now increased so much, that
though his mental powers remained unimpaired, he had
lost not merely the use of his hands and feet, but even
his sight. Under these circumstances Guy of Lusignans
ucceeded in obtaining from him the cities of Ascalon
and Joppa, and the rank of viceroy. Guy thus by taking
on him a burden beyond his strength prepared his own
ruin and that of the kingdom.

BREACH OF THE TRUCE.
NECESSARY as the truce had been for the Christians,
they were the first to break it. This was done by
Raynald, to whom the charge of the country beyond the
Jordan was committed; he made an incursion into Ara-
bia and ravaged it, but the governor of Damascus forced
him to retire, and when Saladin heard of this breach of
truce he laid in irons and stripped of their property fif-
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Mount Tabor

1180-4.] BREACH OF THE TRUCE. 383

teen hundred pilgrims whose ship had been stranded at
Damietta, and he led an army into the country beyond
ithe Jordan and laid it waste. In the council of war held
at Jerusalem, the prudent advice of Raymond of Tripolis
was to leave the trans-Jordane land to its fate, and to
provide for the defence of the country on this side; but
the impetuous Raynald was for marching through the
valley of the Dead Sea* and getting between Salaain and
Damascus. This opinion was adopted, but, as Raymond
had told them, to no purpose; for the sultan, by taking
a short round, reached his destination. The Christians
then returned and posted themselves in Galilee, at the
well of Sephoria, to be at hand to oppose Saladin. But
while they were there, the emirs of Damascus, Hama,
Baalbek, and Bostrum crossed the Jordan below the lake,
ravaged the whole country, took the town of Buria, near
Mount Tabor, led away five hundred captives from it, re-
crossed the river, and made themselves masters, through

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