"...[our men] were killing and slaying even to the Temple of Solomon, where the slaughter was so great that our men waded in blood up to their ankles..." According to Raymond of Aguilers, also writing solely of the Temple Mount area, " in the Temple and porch of Solomon men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins."

Writing about the Temple Mount area alone Fulcher of Chartres, says: "In this temple 10,000 were killed. Indeed, if you had been there you would have seen our feet coloured to our ankles with the blood of the slain. But what more shall I relate? None of them were left alive; neither women nor children were spared."

(Accounts from the first Crusade, 1095, from the French 'Chanson de Gest' literature--and this only refers to the Muslims; doesn't even mention the Jews and Eastern Christians massacred).