On this day, in 732, at the Battle of Tours near Poitiers, France, Frankish leader Charles Martel, a Christian, defeated a large army of Spanish Moors, halting the Muslim advance into Western Europe. Abd-ar-Rahman, the Muslim governor of Cordoba, was killed in the fighting, and the Moors retreated from Gaul, never to return in such force.
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Charles Martel, Charles “the Hammer”.
“battle of tours”
the illustration appears to be of a napoleonic army ….
heh. better.
Charles Martel is actually one of my ancestors, considering what is happening in France now, with the new style Muslim invasion, coming not with scimitars but with hands out as Gimmidat Refugees who are actually welcomed into the country, taking it over slowly all the while the French people are paying them to do so, well he must be spinning in his grave