A great one, however, for Saladin and the Mussulmans was the departure of Richard and the crusaders.

Being unable to agree about conditions for a definitive peace, they contented themselves, on both sides, with a truce for three years and eight months, leaving Jerusalem in possession of the Mussulmans, but open for worship to the Christians, in whose hands remained, at the same time, the towns they were in occupation of on the maritime coast, from Jaffa to Tyre.
This truce, which was called peace, having received the signature of all the Christian and Mussulman princes, was celebrated by galas and tournaments, at which Christians and Mussulmans seemed for a moment to have forgotten their hate; and on the 9th of October, 1192, Richard embarked at St.Jean d'Acre to go and run other risks.
Thus ended the third crusade, undertaken by the three greatest sovereigns and the three greatest armies of Christian Europe, and with the loudly proclaimed object of retaking Jerusalem from the infidels, and re-establishing a king over the sepulchre of Jesus Christ.

The Emperor Frederick Barbarossa perished in it before he had trodden the soil of Palestine.

King Philip Augustus retired from it voluntarily, so soon as experience had foreshadowed to him the impossibility of success.

King Richard abandoned it perforce, after having exhausted upon it his heroism and his knightly pride.