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Syria, Palestine: In the year of our Lord 1187. The territories occupied by the Latins under Guy of Lusignan, |
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King of |
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Jerusalem and the united realms of the Ayyubids under Sultan Saladin were keeping an unstable truce. |
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Knowing that |
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This truce could be broken by the pettiest trespass Lord Raynald of Chatillon, a confident of the King, |
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Regularly attacked |
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And plundered Muslim caravans. These misdeeds driven by pride, hatred and greed provoked the single |
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Greatest catastrophe |
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In the history of the crusades and sealed the beginning of the end of Christian reign in Outremer. A |
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Reign based |
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On faith, courage, honour and glory, carried throughout the land on blazing wings of thunder. |
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In the year 1177 the Crusaders had defeated Saladin's forces at the Battle of Montgisard. What ensued was |
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A truce which was repeatedly broken by the Christian king's ally Raynald of Chatillon who attacked peaceful |
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Muslim caravans without any obvious reason. Longing for war he couldn't foresee that his actions would |
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Trigger the beginning of the end of the Christian dominance over the Holy Land. |