question:  What is the purpose of the battle scene from the story?
context: History is a science; the other part is, as all Americans know, the most fictional field we have today. Ahead of him, in serried array, with lances erect and pennons flying, was the forward part of the column. Far ahead, he knew, were the Knights Templars, who had taken the advance. Behind the Templars rode the mailed knights of Brittany and Anjou. These were followed by King Guy of Jerusalem and the host of Poitou. He himself, Sir Robert de Bouain, was riding with the Norman and English troops, just behind the men of Poitou. Behind the standard-bearer, his great war horse moving with a steady, measured pace, his coronet of gold on his steel helm gleaming in the glaring desert sun, the lions of England on his firm-held shield, was the King himself. Further behind, the Knights Hospitallers protected the rear, guarding the column of the hosts of Christendom from harassment by the Bedouins. "They assail us from the rear, and they set up traps in our path ahead. "They fear us, else they would not dally to amass so fearsome a force. It were foolhardy to attempt to seek them in their own hills, and yet they must stop us. He has reason to be bitter against Philip of France, as do we all. He has returned to France in haste, leaving the rest of us to fight the Saracen for the Holy Land leaving only the contingent of his vassal the Duke of Burgundy to remain with us." "Could we have permitted a quarrel to develop between the two finest knights and warleaders in Christendom at this crucial point? Like a wash of the tide from the sea came the sound of Saracen war cries and the clash of steel on steel mingled with the sounds of horses in agony and anger. The Negro troops of Saladin's Egyptian contingent were thundering down upon the rear! They clashed with the Hospitallers, slamming in like a rain of heavy stones, too close in for the use of bows.
output:  To associate tobacco products with masculinity, brotherhood, and pride
options:  To accurately depict a significant battle from the Crusades  To associate tobacco products with masculinity, brotherhood, and pride  To illustrate the powerful bonds of allegiance among soldiers on the battlefield  To reveal how the King Phillip's cowardice initiated the downfall of one of the world's greatest armies