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Rumour has it that Saladin still thinks Fredrick is still alive.

For 2 years...damn what a showdown between these legends .

11:13 "hey where is my wife?" "ehm, she told us to throw her in the pit"

Its funny how Richard just sat in a stretcher while picking enemies off with his crossbow because eight years after this battle Richard the Lionheart will be killed by a crossbow bolt to the arm.

Imagine raising one of Europe's largest armies in recent times only to die to RNG

We surrender No. We surrender No. (Assaults and has its siege towers burned) Why does God not allow us to take the city?

Crusaders: We have got fireproof heavy seige weapons, the city's ours Some bloke from Damascus: Not today

Why do we need Game of Thrones... When we have Kings and Generals.

When you're at 70% warscore and you reject the enemy's peace offer cause you want that extra 30%.

Richard shooting people on his stretcher with a crossbow is all levels of badass 😁

Saladdin bursted into tears thinking about the fall of Acre and the eventual massacre , that's a leader who loves his people.

If only saladin knew that Frederick is dead there would be a different outcome but this shows the importance of intelligence in wars

A little known fact; dinosaurs initially served the crusaders following the promises that we would find unicorns. When we discovered there was no such thing we abandoned the crusaders and joined the Varangian guard. Still looking for the unicorns

This was fantastic! I live like 20 minutes away from Acre and have been there more times than I can remember and I love its history. It's seen so much

Great job on this one. This is the great quality i've come to expect from you guys! Felt there was a bit of faltering on quality of the details of certain videos recently and this is reassuring. :)

So did Richard ever recieve his Fruit and Ice?

Brilliant work! Gutted about Barbarossa's death. His presence would have altered history as we know it and made great watching 900ish years later.

You guys did a great job on this video as usual. I hope you do alot more videos on the crusades.

You can safely say that God is on your side only when he drowns your holy emperor

Kindly make one about the Siege of Malta by the Ottomans

English: I never thought i would fight side by side with a French French: What about side by side with a friend English: Aye, i could do that Crusaders: So do i

I think your gamble to realease three videos in this month paying off!The subscribers are going like lighting! Can't wait for 1m subscribers.

Just wanted to say thank you for these great videos and for helping me with my channel. I still get tons of people saying they found my channel due to a comment that I posted and that got pinned by you guys from January of this year. Much love from Turkey/USA and hoping that KZfaq can stop screwing over you guys with monetization . :D

I am not those men, i am Sallahudin. Sallahudin.

This channel is better than porn thanks man you're the best.

Great work again! Loved the character which shines through Richard and Saladin, and the rest is cinrmatic as always!

Please do the siege of Malta, I would love to see that episode from you. I have done countless hours of research on it and I always find conflicting reports. Keep up the good work!

Always look forward to your videos, keep up the great work! :)

9:19 battle of canae at sea

Loved that little recap in the beginning really helped me get back in

I knew very little about what happened in this battle. But now I'm glad to have been made aware of it. I would love it if this channel covered the other crusades too. Especially the first and second crusades. My compliments to those who made this video a reality.

Love a good Crusades video! Keep up the great work.

According to some sources, When Acre was lost, Saladin cried like a mother who lost a child

love your vids i was waiting for this

Excellent video as always 👍

A couple fun side stories regarding this siege. I went to school in Austria, so that's where I first heard about them. First, at some point during it, after one of the fights, the Duke of Austria and commander of the German contingent Leopold V, was supposedly soaked in blood. He wore a pure white tunic, and when he took off his belt, it left a white stripe on a sea of red. He took this as his new personal banner, which the Holy Roman Emperor allowed him to keep, and it's still the flag of Austria to this day. Second, King Richard treated that same Duke like crap. Leopold wanted to be treated as an equal to Richard and Philip- he was the current leader of the German faction in the siege, and felt it was his right- and Richard refused, even tearing down Leopold's (new) banner during a celebration event. Shortly after the siege ended, Leopold quit the crusade and went back to Austria. Almost a year after Acre, when Richard finally went back to England, during his trip he was forced to go through Austria, where he was captured and imprisoned for about a year and a half until he was finally ransomed (for which Leopold was excommunicated- Christians weren't supposed to do that to a crusader). So if you've ever wondered why it took so long for Richard to return home after the crusade while John was trying to claim the throne of England... there you go.

What better way to spend a Sunday then a kings and generals EXCELLENT video!!!

You made my Sunday, thanks

Sorry, the Maniacal Cinephile uploaded a new video after 2 years so I had to watch that first. But great video! I've been looking forward to more Crusades content.

Third Crusade summaries Emperor drown Frankish Woman became a moat Richard in strecher Saladin burst into tears French Quit the game

King Richard: damn this illness Soldiers: My Lord rest we can handle this King Richard: someone get me a crossbow and hold my stretcher

This deserves to be remembered. Thank you.

Your work is amazing, but the most I like about your videos is your voice.

Your channel is beautiful and creative🤗

This was very interesting and I am happy to have heard that part about the different formulas of Greek Fire that Saladins army had. I read a few different sources about Saladin using Greek fire against crusaders, this reinforced it for me. The ayyubids generally speaking had good military technology. The specialist combustible called ali is news to me, it was a known fact that many scientists of Syria knew the formula of Greek Fire, some say it went back to ummayad times when they learnt the formula from a Syrian Christian who had a position inside the eastern roman government.

I like your video very much. It's really great. I'll keep an eye on your channel. I am your fan and I will support you.

very great detailed narrative , and also great use of total war graphics

Great! More crusade videos

Disease: "I'm about to wreck both sides!"

Another awesome video

Thanks for doing this videos. I'm truly fascinated by the history of the crusaders. I watch them for entertainment. I have watched all the first crusade in your channel. I'm wondering if you have second crusade because I couldn't find it so I went straight to the third one. Blessings.

Early upload gang!

For a moment i thought saladin was sponsoring this video...

The first time I watch this site I was in a really rotten mood .The house cats all hid from me,the dogs preferred to play fetch but nobody was throwing anything to fetch. 3 minutes in I was so engrossed that my rotten mood started to disappear and 3 minutes and 20 seconds later it was gone and replaced with curiosity . Keep up the fascinating work.

What was the countryside like around Acre during this time period? The Crusaders built a lot of siege engines and as we all know that takes a lot of material. Thank you for this series... Looking forward to part 3!!! As always the Narrator is top notch... Legendary even.

Delay in attack and delay in accepting surrender has caused all this.

The third Crusade is really interesting. No one won being aggressive. Saladin lost quite few battles when he tried to invade the coastal areas including at Arsuf and Jaffa. Richard lost at the last siege of Jerusalem so far I know. Obviously, it all ended in Sultan Baibar's reign

This is great content!

Ohh crusades, i waited for this for a loong time

I read this battle in Ibn Kather's book Albedaya Wa Alnehaya and it was epic... one of the best things I have read in my life... Left me days just thinking about it.

"All right, we can't do this anymore, we surrender." "No way, we're going to win this the proper way." later "No, seriously, we can't do this anymore, we surrender!" "Like hell you do! I promised the boys a good proper victory." "I'm literally handing you victory! We quit! You win, ok?" "No no no. You get back up there behind your little walls and we'll do this the right way." meanwhile, in the crusader camp: "Why is this taking so long? I would have swore we'd have won by this point."

In 1971 we did 6 months of our infantry basic training very near Acre finishing with 2 more months in Jericho.

unghhhhh I fucking love this channel. Keep up the medieval History!!

Yeah richard and saladin are back

Please do about Second Cruasade. We could find any information or video about it. School only tell about First, Third and Fourth.

The story might have ended a bit early, but perhaps the full conclusion of the siege will be covered in the beginning of the next video. Thanks anyhow.

Salah Ad-din! one of the most just and chivalrous human being, world have ever seen!

I want to play an RTS remake of this battle, with a unique Richard the Lionheart hero unit shooting arrows from a stretcher.

This siege was also a level in Altair’s Chronicles

I have looked and I cant find 1 by this channel. A couple of others did come up.

Crusades are such a interesting time, so much blood shed and so many heroes on both sides.

Do the third battle of panipat

I can't understand Salahdin's hesitance to attack. Why didn't he just attack an outnumbered and surrounded enemy. Patience is not always a virtue.

I really appreciated all the environmental noises like the christian besiegers building that wall to fortify their position. It adds a nice depth to your videos.

Well done!

Great video. Please make video about alauddin khalji from Delhi sultanate and his war against mongol

20:06 carried on a regal stretcher near the front lines from where he picked off muslim troops...using his crossbow Maybe it's just me...but that kinda reminds me of Joffrey Baratheon & his obsession with crossbows

10:47 This scene gave me flashbacks of the Timurids back in Medieval II.

Great video, as usual, but a bit of a shame that you left out the anecdote where Richard threw the Austrian Duke‘s Leopold (who was leading the remnants of Barbarossa’s army) banner into the dirt. It was used as a justification for Richard‘s capture on his way home by Leopold‘s men. - which in itself became quite tumultuous with his mother, Eleonore of Aquitaine requisitioning every coin available to pay for his release, while his brother John and his liege lord, king Philip offered an even greater ransom to keep him in capture.

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I broke my mouse click for clicking on this video so fast

Salute to the courage, power, patience, wisdom, bravery and strategy of Salahudin Ayubi.

Greaaat documentary!

Richard the lion heart was abit of a lad

Just imagine how the third crusade could have changed if Barbarossa didn't drown.

What a heroic struggle and resistance by the Islamic ayyubid garrison .. Acre all the time is invensible to be captured .. even Napoleon bonabrt later failed to conqoure it in modern history !!

Loving the vids, but I would love it if the vids about a particular war would follow one another instead of having a gap of other videos. Anyone feel the same way?

At some point the Ayyubid soldiers must have wondered whether their Sultan had a man-crush on Barbarossa.

Real history is way a better story to tell than fantasy stories like game of thrones

First off, great videos. Really. Just one thing I see over and over again when depicting the sites in the Holy Land: Acre is a northern territory. It is not a desert. Much like the mountains around Jerusalem, Mt. Carmel is forested and the surrounding area is usually green and lush. Also, in winter, this area receives no snow. I realize that this is an illustration, but still misleading. In summer, the heat dries out the grass and weeds, but there is still plenty of trees and, again, this is not a desert terrain. Apart from that small thing that bothers me, I really enjoy your videos. Please keep on making them.

a great video

Ali: Trust me guys , i do know how to BLOW things up , dosent matter how "stories high they are"

Hmmm... Except that the siege ended with bloodshed when the negotiations actually broke down and Richard beheaded around 3000 thousands of the Muslim hostages he held, including women and children, in front of Saladin's army. Therefore, the exchange never happened, True Cross was never recovered by the Crusaders. And Saladin executed 2300 Christian prisoners in retaliation.

Yay new vid

Good work make video of siege of acre 1291

Can anyone name some battles fought between Saladin and Richard other than Acre, Jaffa and Arsuf

"There are massive humongous crusader armies approaching. How about instead of defeating them in detail, I sit on my ass in my camp. And wait and see what I can do when they have all linked up" - Salahaddin

Thank you

how do you make strategic simulations on the map? what is the name of this program?