This image, from medieval times, depicts Saladin mounting an assault on Jaffa. Its French title is “Saladin à l'assaut de Jaffa," and it is maintained at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris.
When the Franks lost the battle at the Horns of Hattin, the Kingdom of Jerusalem was essentially defenseless. One by one, during the summer of 1187, Crusader settlements fell:
By late September, virtually the entire coast (except Tyre) was controlled by Saladin.
He would next turn his sights toward the job he believed he was born to do: Capture Jerusalem.
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