The Siege of Jerusalem was an armed conflict between the Crusader Armies and the Sarecen Army. Saladin, still smarting from his defeat at Hattin, ordered an advance of Jerusalem on September 15, 1187. King Guy was elsewhere, at Acre, so the Saracens took the city relatively easily. With the German reinforcements, the Crusaders broke through Sarecen defenses and entered the city on August 20, 1188. Saladin and his forces surrendered later that day. Saladin exiled himself to Baghdad, where he died bitterly two years later.