Note 64 — Chapter IV · THE THIRD CRUSADE
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Defensive war was so completely the object of the crusaders, that each man was covered with pieces of cloth, united together by rings, on which he received without injury the enemy’s arrows. Boha ad-Dinf (who narrates this curious circumstance) adds, that he himself saw several of the Christians who had not one or two, but ten arrows adhering to their backs, and yet who marched forwards with a quiet step, and without trepidation. “So close did they march, that if an apple had been thrown, it must have struck either a man or a horse,” says Vinsauf.g