Crusades · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Execution of the Acre prisoners (1191)
On the Crusades map as “The Acre garrison”
20 Aug 1191 — with ransom talks stalled, Richard has some 2,700 Muslim prisoners of the surrendered garrison executed in view of Saladin’s army. A brutal act of war, named soberly. A site of memory.
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- Site of memory
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- Third Crusade (chapter 7 of Crusades)
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- The Crusades, 1095–1291
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