CRUSADERS SURROUNDED BY SALADIN'S ARMY

CRUSADERS SURROUNDED BY SALADIN'S ARMY
Book VIII.. Joseph-Francois Michaud .. Illustrated by Gustave Dore

History of the Crusades
History of the Crusades

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CRUSADERS SURROUNDED BY SALADIN'S ARMY

In this army were Bedouin Arabs armed with arrows and round shields ; Scythians with long hair mounted on strong fleet horses and armed javelins ; Ethiopians painted with white and red ; after these came several other phalanxes with lances decorated with flags of all sorts of colors. These barbarians advanced against the Crusaders with the rapidity of light, the earth trembling under their feet, and the noise of their clarions and cymbals would have drowned the reverberations of thunder. They had among them men whose only occupation was to make horrible howls, not only to frighten the enemy, but to warm to the work of carnage the Mussulman warriors, chase fear from their hearts, and give them the courage of the drunkeness of victory. Their battalions aninated thus, now precipitated themselves on the Crusaders, new battalions followed the first, and these were followed by others. Soon the Mussulman army, as an Arabian historian writes, surrounded the Christians "as the eyelashes surround the eye." - Book VIII

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Notes; pages 255 to 258 Outrages by Richard exhibiting another of his nature -- Phillip leaving-- Richard Carrying on as leader .. page 258 being one day hunting in the forest of Saron, overcome by heat or fatique, he alighted from his horse and fell asleep under a tree. All at once he was aroused by the cries of those who accompanied him -- a troop of Saracens was close upon them! He sprang upon his horse, and prepared to defend himself ; but was near sinking beneath the force of numbers, when a knight of his suite, named William Pourcelet, cried out in the Arabic tongue, "I am the king ; spare my life." At these words, this generous warrior was surrounded by the Mussulmans, who made him prisoner and conducted him to Saladin. The King of England, thus was saved by the heroism of a French knight. . . .