General · Asia
Saladin
1137–1193
Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub united Egypt and Syria and turned that combined power against the crusader states. In 1187 he caught the army of the Kingdom of Jerusalem at Hattin and then received the surrender of Jerusalem. The Third Crusade, including Richard I’s march along the coast, was the answer to those two campaigns.
Battles
- Battle of Hattin
10 July 1187 · Horns of Hattin · Israel
- Siege of Jerusalem (1187)
27 September 1187 · Jerusalem · Israel · Palestine
- Battle of Arsuf
14 September 1191 · Arsuf · Israel