arsûf

Updated: May 2, 2025

Never had the Caliph Saladin suffered so great a defeat as that which fell upon him in the battle of Arsuf; never, indeed, after that day did he dare to meet King Richard in the open field. Nevertheless, from that very day did the hope of the Christians that they should accomplish the end of their warfare grow less and less.

Hamilton Wright Mabie - Heroes Every Child Should Know

At a later date, when digging at Arsuf, these Scots came across some marble columns which had graced a hall when Apollonia was in its heyday.

William Thomas Massey - How Jerusalem Was Won: Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine

So great were the difficulties which Richard had not foreseen that at one time he was disposed to give up the attempt and to secure what he could by treaty, but the negotiations failed. The battle of Arsuf gave him an opportunity to exercise his peculiar talents, and the Saracens were badly defeated; but the advance was not made any the easier.

George Burton Adams - The History of England from the Norman Conquest: to the Death of John (1066-1216)