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Saladin captured Acre not long after the battle of Hattin, which was a sound strategy, in that it restricted the Crusaders on the coasts. WI: Acre had managed to hold out, perhaps with help from Venice, or a later arriving army? How does this change the course of the wars and battles of the Third Crusade?