. Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. etween three and four inthe afternoon, loudly proclaimed the approach ofSaladins army. The tidings put fresh heart into * Ibn-el-Athirs account of the siege of Alexandria is here puts the ships at 600, and the troops at 30,000, anddates the beginning of the siege 7th September. 128 Saladin. [1174 the defenders, and they rushed out again in thegathering darkness, fell upon the camp of the Sicil-ians, and drove them, some to the ships, some intothe sea. The news that Saladin was on the marchfinished the fiasco : the Sicilia
. Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. etween three and four inthe afternoon, loudly proclaimed the approach ofSaladins army. The tidings put fresh heart into * Ibn-el-Athirs account of the siege of Alexandria is here puts the ships at 600, and the troops at 30,000, anddates the beginning of the siege 7th September. 128 Saladin. [1174 the defenders, and they rushed out again in thegathering darkness, fell upon the camp of the Sicil-ians, and drove them, some to the ships, some intothe sea. The news that Saladin was on the marchfinished the fiasco : the Sicilians slipped their moor-ings and fled, as suddenly as they had come. The danger from the Franks was over, but it hadbeen very grave. Nevertheless the Sicilian invasion,the conspiracy at Cairo, and the insurrection up theNile, weighed nothing in the balance against the im-portant news which had been brought from greatest of dangers was past, the greatest ofrivals was no longer formidable ; for on the 15th ofMay the Sultan of Syria lay SIEGE OF A SARACEN A 13TH CENTURY MS. PART III 129
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