According to , both western and Muslim histories agree the battle was hard fought, and that the Umayyad heavy cavalry had broken into the square, but agreed that the Franks were in formation still strongly resisting | Western historians, beginning with the Mozarabic Chronicle of 754, stressed the macrohistorical impact of the battle, as did the Continuations of Fredegar |
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Moreover, as Davis points out, these infantrymen were heavily armed | When the Muslims had tried to penetrate Central Europe in the 8th century, they had been driven back at the Battle of Tours; if they had won that battle, the world would have become Muslim |
As wrote in one of his translations of a history of al-Andalus, Odo managed a highly successful encircling envelopment which took the attackers totally by surprise, resulting in a chaotic slaughter of the Muslim forces.
" The exoticism of the army is stressed in this detail from The Saracen Army outside Paris, by , painted 1822—27, which actually depicts a fictional incident from Cassino Massimo, Rome | They had to wait until the area's wheat harvest was ready and then until a reasonable amount of the harvest had been stored |
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" Strategically, and tactically, Charles probably made the best decision he could in waiting until his enemies least expected him to intervene, and then marching by stealth to catch them by surprise at a battlefield of his choosing | Most historians agree that "the establishment of Frankish power in western Europe shaped that continent's destiny and the Battle of Tours confirmed that power |
In the northeast of Spain the Frankish emperors established the across the in part of what today is , reconquering in 785 and in 801.
However, it continued to struggle against external forces such as the Saxons, Frisians, and other opponents such as the Basque-Aquitanians led by Old French: Eudes , Duke over Aquitaine, and | 'Editors' Note', Cowley and Parker, 2001, p |
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Having easily destroyed all resistance in that part of Gaul, the invading army had split off into several raiding parties, while the main body advanced more slowly | The king Abdirama having been killed, he destroyed [them], driving forth the army, he fought and won |
However, virtually all Western sources disagree, estimating the Franks as numbering 30,000, less than half the Muslim force.
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