Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> At 1:28 PM +0000 3/28/02, Alistair Vining wrote: > > >> I'm bearing in mind Sarasvati's imprecation to keep this "innocent, >> non-denominational, and non-violent", but: >> >> Arabs, Franks, and the Battle of Tours, 732: Three Accounts >> http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/732tours.html >> Little "localisation" issue, for French speakers no battle took place in 732 in Tours; there was, however, that very same year a very famous battle in Poitiers (Charles Martel saving the Western World, etc.). Around 100 km to the South of Tours. P. Andries
