Richard the Lionheart and the Conquest of Cyprus

At Cyprus, a pretender to the throne of the Byzantine Empire faces Richard the Lionheart, who is on the way to the Holy Land. As he sails east, he encounters one of Saladin’s allies, a Byzantine rebel called Isaac Comnenus. Isaac rules the wealthy island of Cyprus. After Isaac captures some of the Lionheart's men, Richard launches one of the most remarkable amphibious operations in military history – the crusader conquest of Cyprus. This is the Lionheart in one of his finest moments, during one of the most critical episodes of the Third Crusade.

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Sources:
-The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade, trans. Peter W Edbury, (Ashgate, 1998)
-Ehrenkreutz, Andrew - Saladin, (State University of New York, 1972)
-Gesta Regis Ricardi: The Chronicle of the Third Crusade, trans. Helen Nicholson, (Ashgate, 2001)
-Gillingham, John - Richard the Lionheart, (Times Books, 1978)
-Madden, Thomas - The New Concise History of the Crusades, (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006)
-Riley-Smith, Jonathan - The Crusades: A History, (Yale University Press, 2005)
-Tyerman, Christopher - God’s War, (Harvard University Press, 2006)

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