Causes Of The Battle Of Positiers

The battle of tours is often called the Battle of Poitiers. This battle was fought on October 10 732 between the forces under the Aranksn leader Charles Martel and a massive Islamic army led by Emir Abdual Rahman al Ghaflql and Al Rahman near the city of Tours, France.
In the battle leaders Charles Martel a Christian defeated a large army of Spanish Moors, slowing down the Muslims advance into Western Europe. Abd-ar-Rahman, the Muslim governor of Cordoba was killed in the battle and the Moors retreated Gual. Charles was the illegitimate son of Pepin , Which is the powerful mayor of the palace of Austrasia and the ruler of the Frankish kingdom . After Pepin died in 714 Charles beat out Pepin's three grandsons in a power struggle, and he also
Their strength led with in their cavalry , armed with their baggage mules limited their mobility. The french army displayed great evidence in withstanding the ferrous attack it was one of the rare times in the middle ages when infancy held its ground against a mountaed attack. The exact length of the battle is undetermined. In either case, the battle ended when the french captured and Abd-er Rahman. The Muslim army withdrew peacefully overnight and even though martel expected a surprise retaliation , there wasn't any for the moslems . The deaths of their leader caused a sharp setback and they had no choice but to retreat back across the pyrenees never to return again. This does not only prove to be a desired battle for the christians , but the battle of tours is considered the night water mark of the muslim invasion of the
During the following Battle of the River Garonne, the Mozarabic Chronicle of 754 commented that "God alone knows the number of the slain". The Mozarabic Chronicle of 754 continues, saying they "pierced through the mountains, trampled over rough and level ground, plundered far into the country of the Franks, and smote all with the sword, insomuch that when Eudo came to battle with them at the River Garonne, he fled."
The historian Philip Hitti believes that in reality nothing was decided on the battlefield of Tours. The Moslem wave, already a thousand miles from its starting point in Gibraltar—to say nothing about its base in al-Qayrawan had already spent itself and reached a natural limit.
The view that the battle has no great significance is perhaps best summarized by Franco Cardini says in Europe and Islam: "Although prudence needs to be exercised in minimizing or 'demythologizing' the significance of the event, it is no longer thought by anyone to have been crucial. The 'myth' of that particular military engagement survives today as a media cliché, than which nothing is harder to eradicate. It is well known how the propaganda put about by the Franks and the papacy glorified the victory that took place on the road between Tours and Poitiers