Identifier: battlerollencycl00perc (find matches)
Title: The battle roll: an encyclopedia containing descriptions of the most famous and memorable land battles and sieges in all ages
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Perce, Elbert, 1831-1869
Subjects: Battles
Publisher: New York, Mason brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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effort toapproach Tournai and besiege it in regularform, but all in vain ; he, on every occasion,had to contend with troops superior to hisown, beneath its walls. When, however, hehad gained several victories, and the irape-riaUsts had been conquered at Fleuris, theallies withdrew from Tournai, which fell intothe hands of the French.—Robson. TOURS, A.D. 732.—Between Tours andPoictiers, in France, lays a broad tract ofchampaign country, composed principally of-a succession of rich pasture lands, which aretraversed by several streams, tributaries of theriver Loire. This region has been signalizedby more tlian one memorable battle; but itis principally interesting by having been thescene of the great victory won by CharlesMartel over the Saracens a.d. 732, whichgave a decisive check to the career of Arabconquest in western Europe, rescued Chris-tendom from Islam, preserved the relics ofancient, and the germs of modern civilization,and re-established the old superiority of the ^^t=r-i
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TOURS. 641 Indo-European over the Semitic family ofmankind.* The Saracens under their great leader,Abderame, had crossed the Pyrenees; hadpassed the Rhone, and laid siege to Aries,and had defeated with great slaughter aChristian army which had marched to therelief of Aries. The army of the Saracenchief was no less successful on the side of theocean. He had passed, without opposition,the Garonne and Dardogne, which unite theirwaters in the gulf of Bordeaux ; but he hadfound beyond those waters the camp of theintrepid Endes, wlio had formed a secondarmy, and sustained a second defeat, so fatalto the Christians, that, according to their sadconfession, God alone knew how many hadbeen slain. The victorious Saracen overrunthe provinces of Aquitania, whoso GalHcnames are disguised rather than lost inthe modern appellations of Perigord, Saint-onge, and Poitou ; liis standards were plantedon the walls, or at least before the gates ofTours and of Sens; and his detachmentsoverspread the kingdom

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