The Venetian Lagoon - The Last Crusade

Only about 12,000 of the promised 33,000 men had made it to the Adriatic. Among them were less than 2,000 knights - hardly the kind of force that would strike terror into the Sultan of Egypt. The crusade leaders all awkwardly looking at the floor every time the doge asks how many more pilgrims they were expecting. And then Bonnie Face remembers that Dandolo is blind and starts making gestures at Baldwin to help him come up with more excuses.