Military strategy and siege warfare
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Preparations included a penitential barefoot march around the walls, and the vital construction of siege engines using timber from dismantled Genoese ships.
The crusaders constructed siege forts, such as Malregard, to block the city gates and prevent supplies from reaching the Muslim defenders.
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