Louis was not as lucky at the on 6 January 1148 when the army of Mesud inflicted heavy losses on the Crusaders.
In The Crusades: An Encyclopedia.
In The Crusades: An Encyclopedia.
What the crusader states needed were large standing armies.
In two decades, they conquered Iran, Iraq, and the Near East.
In 1150, Nūr-ad-Din defeated for a final time, resulting in Joscelin being publicly blinded, dying in prison in Aleppo in 1159.