ABSTRACT
In the same year when King Baldwin returned from the siege of Sidon,1 William count of Cerdagne fought a battle with the king of the Damascans, called Tughtigin,2 and destroyed him with his troops on the field of the fortress of the Mount of Pilgrims, returning in victory and triumph with a thousand armoured cavalry and bearing much spoil, and then, on the advice of a certain Saracen, because there was a shortage of food there for the inhabitants of the place, he besieged in great strength the stronghold at Arqa, which Duke Godfrey on the first expedition had been unable to overcome by any siege engines or forces, but which was now suffering from the severe devastation of crops and fruit harvests that he had inflicted around the region every single year.3
