he picks up any weapon he can find and begins battling against saladin and his army. richard is outnumbered three to one, but his ferocity is unmatched. you can have 20,000 soldiers, but you might be defeated by 200 of the soldiers because they were really the fighters . the way to imagine the end of
so what he does is he swings around the backside of the city and busts in. and by doing this, he s able to drive saladin s forces out of the city. saladin makes a number of desperate efforts to break into acre to relieve the siege. he s leading from the front, but he is unable to break through into acre. the result of the battle of acre is that rich the lionheart does something that no one else has been able to do. he hands saladin his first loss at the hands of crusaders. saladin is forced to retreat,
so the person who tried to negotiate for peace was the brother of saladin. the name of saladin s brother is al adil. al adil is also known as saphadin to the crusaders. by all accounts, he is equally skilled as saladin, but he s his younger brother, so he had fewer opportunities to show that. saphadin is a man of courtesy, of culture. he enjoys talking with richard about music, about singing, about hunting. it s part of a positive relationship that s formed between the two of them. and in the course of the negotiations, there is a radical solution put forward by richard at one stage, and that involves his sister. joanna is richard the lionheart s sister, who happens to be the queen of sicily. and when her husband dies, richard stops by sicily on the way to the holy land and picks her up.
desperate efforts to break into acre to relieve the siege. he s leading from the front, but he is unable to break through into acre. the result of the battle of acre is that rich the lionheart does something that no one else has been able to do. he hands saladin his first loss at the hands of crusaders. saladin is forced to retreat, and now the crusaders, after almost being wiped out of the holy land, are now reconstituted, re-energized, reinvigorated, and now they re ready to recapture jerusalem.
emotionally to christians and to muslims. their negotiations are some of the most fascinating negotiations that take place because they re exactly like a modern peace negotiations between the israelis and the palestinians, for example. they say essentially, you think jerusalem s yours, and we think jerusalem s ours. saladin declines to meet richard in person. he says it s not proper that leaders should meet, and if we don t make an agreement, we may then fight again. so the person who tried to negotiate for peace was the brother of saladin. the name of saladin s brother is aladil. aladil is also known as soph adin to the crusaders.