10 October 732 A.D. HAMMER STRATEGY: Charles Martel Hammers Islamo-Jihadi-Fascists at Tours
10 October 732 A.D. HAMMER
STRATEGY: Charles Martel Hammers Islamo-Jihadi-Fascists at Tours
Editors. “Battle of Tours.” Encyclopedia Britannica. N.d. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/600883/Battle-of-Tours. Accessed 3 Oct 2014.
Battle of Tours, also called Battle of Poitiers , (October 732), victory won by Charles Martel, the de facto ruler of the Frankish kingdoms, over Muslim invaders from Spain. The battlefield cannot be exactly located, but it was fought somewhere between Tours and Poitiers, in what is now west-central France.
Editors. “Battle of Tours.” Encyclopedia Britannica. N.d. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/600883/Battle-of-Tours. Accessed 3 Oct 2014.
Battle of Tours, also called Battle of Poitiers , (October 732), victory won by Charles Martel, the de facto ruler of the Frankish kingdoms, over Muslim invaders from Spain. The battlefield cannot be exactly located, but it was fought somewhere between Tours and Poitiers, in what is now west-central France.
ʿAbd-ar-Raḥmān, the Muslim governor of Córdoba, had invaded Aquitaine (present southwestern France) and defeated its duke, Eudes. Eudes appealed for help to Charles, who
stationed his forces to defend the city of Tours from the northward progress of
the Muslims. According to tradition, the Muslim cavalry attacks broke upon
Charles’s massed infantry, and after ʿAbd-ar-Raḥmān was killed in the fighting, the Arabs retired
southward. There were no further Muslim invasions of Frankish territory, and
Charles’s victory has often been regarded as decisive for world history, since
it preserved western Europe from Muslim conquest and Islāmization. The victory
also served to consolidate Charles’s leadership of the Franks, and he was able
to assert his authority in Aquitaine, where Eudes swore allegiance to him.
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