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 | | The 25,000 Christians who defended the city were not even under one supreme commander; nevertheless they resisted with heroic valor, filled breaches in the wall with stakes and bags of cotton and wool, and communicated by sea with King Henry II, who brought them help from Cyprus. |
 | | After the capture of Saint- Jean d'acre, Henry II, King of Cyprus, had offered them shelter at Limasol, but there they found themselves in very straitened circumstances. |
 | | (1902); STANLEY LANE POLE, Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (New York, 1898); STUBBS, The Medival Kingdoms of Cyprus and Armenia (Oxford, 1887); CARTELLIERI, Philippe II August, II, Der Kreuzzug (Leipzig, 1906); LAVISSE, De Hermano Salzensi ordinis Teutonici magistro (Paris, 1878); ARCHER, The Crusade of Richard I (New York, 1888). |
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