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Site of memory · The Crusades, 1095–1291
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.
This is one scene of Chapter 7 — The Third Crusade in The Crusades, 1095–1291.
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