Knights at the Opera, Part 14 – Postscript
Dec 27, 2001 -
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rdan and went AWOL back to Jaffa to try to pikc up some kind of transportation home. But faith won out for others who, bearing crosses and holy relics, reswore their oaths and built portable wooden siege castles -- medieval cherry-pickers -- from which to assault the fortress. When the Crusaders finally succeeded in occupying Iftikhar's tower, they allowed the deposed ruler to leave but then celebrated by massively slaughtering the Jewish and Moslem population of Jerusalem.
On July 20, 1099, unbeknownst to the faraway Crusaders, Pope Urban II died in Rome without ever receiving word that, but two weeks earlier, his supporters had completed his holy mission.
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