. Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. besiege * Baha-ed-din, wise after the event, remembers at a later page (152)of his history that he heard Saladin urge the council of war at MarjOyun to adopt his counsel and attack the enemy on the march, beforethey could entrench themselves ; but the council preferred to wait tillthe Franks were in position before Acre. Baha-ed-din, however,writes as a hero-worshipper, and the story has an ex post facto repetition with variations by Ibn-el-Athir (ii., 6) is perhaps aslight confirmation. f El-Kharruba, an important position during Sal
. Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. besiege * Baha-ed-din, wise after the event, remembers at a later page (152)of his history that he heard Saladin urge the council of war at MarjOyun to adopt his counsel and attack the enemy on the march, beforethey could entrench themselves ; but the council preferred to wait tillthe Franks were in position before Acre. Baha-ed-din, however,writes as a hero-worshipper, and the story has an ex post facto repetition with variations by Ibn-el-Athir (ii., 6) is perhaps aslight confirmation. f El-Kharruba, an important position during Saladin\s Acre cam-paign, is not found in the maps. The name means the carob tree and may have been given to many places where such trees grew. Itwas certainly a hill on the road between Saffuriya and Acre (Abu-Shama, 121) in the mountain range which borders the plain on itseast side. The camp at Acre could be seen from this position, ac-cording to Baha-ed-din. Probably it should be placed some waynorth of Shafraamm, not far from the present PLAN OF ACRE IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. 11891 Acre. 259 the besiegers ; he extended his lines from the riverBelus to the hill of el-Ayyadiya, placing his head-quarters on Tell Keysan ; after a month he movedfurther north, so as to stretch his lines as far as thecoast above Acre, and making his headquarters atel-Ayyadiya. If a ten years war made Troy renowned ; if thetriumph of the Christians ennobled Antioch ; surelyto Acre belongs eternal fame—the city for which thewholeavorld contended. It stands on a tongue ofland jutting out to the southward, behind which theMina or harbour is sheltered from the west andnorth. The northern or Musart quarter was notbuilt in Saladins time and the city measured three-quarters of a mile by a quarter* ; strong walls andtowers protected the city from the land, east andnorth; the sea washed the other sides. Among thedefences, the Turris Maledicta or Accursed Tower atthe north-east angle was so named be
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