Crossword-Solution: ASCALON 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Next came one Who mourn’d in earnest, when the Captive Ark Maim’d his brute Image, head and hands lopt off In his own Temple, on the grunsel edge, Where he fell flat, and sham’d his Worshipers: _Dagon_ his Name, Sea Monster, upward Man And downward Fish: yet had his Temple high Rear’d in _Azotus_, dreaded through the Coast Of _Palestine_, in _Gath_ and _Ascalon_, And _Accaron_ and _Gaza’s_ frontier bounds.

LVII The sun nigh set had brought to end the day, When Vafrine went the Pagan host to spy, He passed unknown a close and secret way; A traveller, false, cunning, crafty, sly, Past Ascalon he saw the morning gray Step o’er the threshold of the eastern sky, And ere bright Titan half his course had run, That camp, that mighty host to show begun.

With much vigour and judgment he exerted himself to follow up the advantages he had gained, and marching out to meet the enemy before they had time to besiege him in Jerusalem, he gave them battle at Ascalon, and defeated them with great loss.

After his departure, Richard re-fortified Acre, restored the Christian worship in the churches, and, leaving a Christian garrison to protect it, marched along the sea-coast towards Ascalon.

His opinion was constantly opposed by the other leaders, all jealous of his bravery and influence; and the army, instead of marching to Jerusalem, or even to Ascalon, as was first intended, proceeded to Jaffa, and remained in idleness until Saladin was again in a condition to wage war against them.