king reached Acre—Saladin had learned from his spies that “the Franks were moving on Beyrout”; Bohadin, 322. [969] Bohadin, 322, 323; dates, which he gives in his usual self-contradictory fashion, corrected by help of _Est._, ll. 10807-10, and _Itin._, 400, 401. [970] Cf. Bohadin, 327, 328, _Itin._, 401-3, and _Est._, ll. 10815-25. [971] _Est._, ll. 10910, 10911. [972] Both _Estoire_, ll. 10957-63, and _Itinerarium_, 404, say the messengers reported that Joppa was already taken and the garrison shut up in the citadel; but the sequel shows that they reached Acre on the date given above, July 28, three days before matters had come to this pass. [973] _Est._, ll. 10968-76; _Itin._, 504. Cf. R. Coggeshall, 41, 42. [974] Cf. _Itin._, 404, 405, _Est._, ll. 10979-11037, and R. Coggeshall, 42. The _Estoire_ (ll. 11033-7) says they lay off Joppa “tote la nuit del _samedi_”; which can be correct only if Ambrose has here fallen, as some of the Frank chroniclers of the Crusade seem to have occasionally done, into the eastern way of reckoning days, from evening to evening. [975] _Est._, ll. 10021-4. [976] Bohadin, 328-31. [977] _Itin._, 405, 406; cf. _Est._, ll. 11040-54. [978] Bohadin, 331, 332. [979] Cf. Bohadin, 332, with _Itin._, 407, 408, and _Est._, ll. 11079-11113. [980] _Est._, ll. 11114-26. [981] Bohadin, 333. [982] _Itin._, 407, 408; _Est._, ll. 11127-53; Bohadin, 332; R. Coggeshall, 43. [983] Bohadin, 333. [984] _Est._, ll. 11154-8; _Itin._, 408. [985] _Itin._, 410, 411; _Est._, ll. 11164-238; cf. Bohadin, 333. [986] R. Coggeshall, 43. [987] Cf. the French translation of Bohadin, 334, with the Latin in Schultens’s edition, 252: “Cognitamque meam in bello operam praestabo.” [988] Bohadin, 333-5. He dates the negotiations “evening of Saturday 19 Rajab” and the removal to Ramlah “Sunday 20 Rajab.” Saturday was really 20 Rajab = August 1. Here, as usual with eastern writers, “evening” stands for “eve,” _i. e._ the “vigil” or evening _before_. [989] _Ib._, 335. [990] _Itin._, 412; Est., ll. 11295-9. [991] _Itin._, 413; Est., ll. 11318-27. [992] Bohadin, 336; cf. R. Coggeshall, 44. [993] Cf. R. Coggeshall, 44, 45, _Itin._, 414, 415, and _Est._, ll. 11379-407. [994] R. Coggeshall, 44, cf. _Itin._, 420. The latter writer puts the episode of the Saracens re-occupying the town and Richard re-taking it at the end of his narrative of the fight, _i. e._ after the victory outside the walls; but as he introduces it with “Interea,” we cannot be sure where in the order of events he really meant to place it; and as R. Coggeshall’s information is derived from Hugh de Neville, who was in close attendance on the king during the fight, his narrative is probably correct. [995] See details of the array in _Itin._, 416. [996] R. Coggeshall, 44, 45; cf. _Itin._, _l.c._ [997] “Ferme quinquaginta milites,” _Itin._, 413; “milites octoginta,” R. Coggeshall, 50.