They advanced like men; like women they vanished.

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The forces of the Atabeg of Mosul and the Shah of Armenia abandon their position on the plain of Harzem, below Maridin, to avoid battle with Saladin (late February – early March 1183). Stanley Lane-Poole, Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906) p. 172

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