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The New Concise History of the Crusades |
 | | They were reduced to plucking unripe figs and cooking them together with the hides of cattle and horses that they would have discarded in the past.' When Karbuqa launched his first assault against the city walls on 9 June, they repulsed it with great difficulty, suffering again losses that they could not afford. |
| | Victory seemed certain: he had thousands of men under his command, and the crusader knights, reduced at most to 1,000 men and probably 3,000 foot, were caught in a vice, having to contend with the Muslims in the citadel and his own army in the plain. |
| | Strangely enough Karbuqa did not move to the attack, not even when he could take advantage of the element of disorganization present at deployment. |
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