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By David Nicolle
After Saladin's nice victory on the conflict of Hattin in 1137, Outremer, as medieval westerners known as the remainder Latin or Catholic enclaves within the japanese Mediterranean, was once not a danger to Islam. Its army elites hottest to reside in peace, targeting alternate up to at the defence of Christendom's holy areas. during this, the 1st e-book within the English language to objectively examine the knights of the Latin East, David Nicolle provides a well-balanced and trained account of the Western warriors who defended the Crusader territories for therefore lengthy.
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Iaolated stretches higher up 59 T H E ZASTLI O F R h G H R A S 3 I 10 20 30 40 so Metres B A G HR A S Plan of substPwctw~ Walls of unknown thickness are shown toothed on the hidden side. The unsurveyed rock-cut course of the tunnel i s omitted. show that the same direction was maintained almost to the summit of the ridge, into which the water channel must have been sunk. Dr Kmnedy, who was far many years the missionary of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland in the Alexandretta district, informed me that he once traced the aqueduct to its source, a spring a couple of miles away in the hills.
In the south of the crusader country such masonry is not uncommon; at Sidon it occurs in work associated with St Louis. In the present instance it may be ascribed to a shElar period, because the room inside contains capitals plainly of hte crusader origin and is presumably contemporary with the facing. fn a j d n t of the external masonry was embedded a sherd of the greenglazed ware wociated with the Mamluk period. An arched opening in the face of the tower, high at its centre, is the enlarged relic of an arrow-slit, upproached from w i t h through a special pawage, An upper storey, shown in Bartlett's engraving of 1838, has entirely perished (PI.
IV1p. 357. " 6 C . O c c . 111. p. 639. IWC,Or. III, p. 578. E owe this information to Prof. W. Bailey. I may add that h u d a i s usual in Arabic, but Nuwairi speaks of the ford of Amudain ar Amudein, the vowels am not indicated. If the latter f o m was merant it could be interpreted as a dud, applying to settlements on both bank of the river; the -anit is an Arabic p3ural ending which could scardy have been intended in that smse but would be a reproduction af the Armenian. ls Its history under crusading rule is obscure.