immediately ran away again and isaac himself got clear but he didn't even have time to get dressed first and he left behind his horses his arms his treasure and his imperial standard embroidered with cloth of gold richard declared that he would send the standard to the abbey of berriton edmonds which is near where i live is a lovely town today so here in limassol was where the king of england would marry his queen and here was where she was crowned by a norman bishop after that richard conquered cyprus it only took him about six weeks at that point isaac agreed to give himself up with only one condition that he would not be clapped in irons after he had lost everything all he wanted was to be spared that final indignity richard happily agreed and promptly had him clapped in custom-made silver chains instead cyprus was an incredibly important place for the crusaders and richard had made conquering it look easy trivial even but now he would face a far tougher test now he sailed on for ultramare and his showdown with saladin saladin is one of the great figures of high medieval history like richard he's another king whose legend is more powerful than the history people might not know much about his deeds but they know saladin was a man of honor and brilliance well he was an expert politician a genius even and he was a pretty good general too much like henry ii really back in august NUMBER_TOKEN a few years after jerusalem fell and the great crusader city of accra was also conquered the former king of jerusalem ghida lusinyong eventually took his mega forces and laid siege to accra trying to take it back but he didn't have the men necessary and he was in turn besieged by saladin but celadin couldn't overcome gize camp either and so the double siege continued for two years but with each month that passed more and more reinforcements poured into ghee's camp king philip arrived months before richard because he'd set off earlier and he hadn't conquered any empires on the way but he had since only set up a few catapults to fling rocks at the walls while he sat down at tyre politicking with the local lords to try to resolve who was to be the future king of jerusalem and other issues and when richard got to tyre philip had seen to it they wouldn't let richard into the city but richard wasn't bothered the very next day he took his fleet to accra on the way he found a huge ship flying the french flag smelling a rat richard chased it down it turned out to be a blockade runner trying to sneak suppliers into accra the enemy ship was promptly sunk in sight of all the armies around the city and richard was given a hero's welcome the scene around accra was one of complete destruction it was a land laid waste by two years of warfare there were tumbled walls and scorched
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