Then the Saracens finally turned and fled, and the Christian victory was complete.
It was one of the features of this war that however thorough the victories of the Christians, the Saracens very speedily recovered from their effects.

A Christian defeat was crushing and entire; the knights died as they stood, and defeat meant annihilation.

Upon the other hand, the Saracens and Bedouins when they felt that their efforts to win the battle were unsuccessful, felt no shame or humiliation in scattering like sheep.

On their fleet horses and in their light attire they could easily distance the Christians, who never, indeed, dreamt of pursuing them.

The day after the fight, the enemy would collect again under their chiefs, and be as ready as before to renew their harassing warfare.
On his return from the field, the king assembled many of his principal knights and leaders, and summoned the Earl of Evesham, with the message that he was to bring his esquire with him.