get to the water, and no man or horse in the Frankish army had anything to drink all through the night. Next morning. Franki foot soldiers ran to get water but many died under the swords and arrows of the Muslim army. Then Saladin told his men to light fires in the dry grass in front of the Frankish army. Smoke filled the Franks eyes and mouths. They couldn't see the enemy, but still they fought. Twelve hundred knights left the day before from Samuriya. Only one hundred and fifty knights were alive when Saladin's seventeen- year-old son Al-Afdal described what he saw that day.