Had I been supported with zeal, the holy city would have been ours; but the apathy, the folly, and the weakness of the leaders brought ruin upon the army.
They thought not of conquering Jerusalem, but of thwarting me; and I retort upon them the charge of having sacrificed the success of the Crusade.

As to the terms of peace, how were they made?
I, with some fifty knights and one thousand followers, alone remained in the Holy Land.

Who else, I ask, so circumstanced, could have obtained any terms whatever from Saladin?
It was the weight of my arm alone which saved Jaffa and Acre, and the line of seacoast, to the Cross.

And had I followed the example set me by him of Austria and the Frenchman, not one foot of the Holy Land would now remain in Christian hands." The trial was soon over, and without a single dissentient the King of England was acquitted of all the charges brought against him.

But the money was not yet raised, and King Richard was taken back into the heart of Germany.