Examples of Battle of Tours in the following topics:
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- In October 732, the army of the Umayyad Caliphate, led by Al Ghafiqi, met Frankish and Burgundian forces under Charles in an area between the cities of Tours and Poitiers (modern north-central France), leading to a decisive, historically important Frankish victory known as the Battle of Tours.
- Details of the Battle of Tours, including its exact location and the number of combatants, cannot be determined from accounts that have survived.
- 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."
- A painting of the Battle of Tours by Charles de Steuben, 1834–1837.
- Explain the significance of Charles Martel's victory at the Battle of Tours
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- Historians traditionally mark the beginning of the Reconquista with the Battle of Covadonga (most likely in 722) and its end is associated with Portuguese and Spanish colonization of the Americas.
- Tariq's army crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and won a decisive victory in the summer of 711 when the Visigothic King Roderic was defeated and killed 19 at the Battle of Guadalete.
- The advance into Western Europe was only stopped in what is now north-central France by the West Germanic Franks at the Battle of Tours in 732.
- In a minor battle known as the Battle of Covadonga, a Muslim force sent to put down the Christian rebels in the northern mountains was defeated by Pelagius of Asturias, who established the monarchy of the Christian Kingdom of Asturias.
- In the 12th century the Almoravid empire broke up again, only to be taken over by the Almohad invasion, who were defeated by an alliance of the Christian kingdoms in the decisive battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212.
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- Leo undertook a set of civil reforms including the abolition of the system of prepaying taxes which had weighed heavily upon the wealthier proprietors, the elevation of the serfs into a class of free tenants and the remodelling of family, maritime law and criminal law, notably substituting mutilation for the death penalty in many cases.
- The Second Arab siege of Constantinople in 717–718 was a combined land and sea offensive by the Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate against the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople.
- The campaign marked the culmination of twenty years of attacks and progressive Arab occupation of the Byzantine borderlands, while Byzantine strength was sapped by prolonged internal turmoil.
- Historians consider the siege to be one of history's most important battles, as its failure postponed the Muslim advance into Southeastern Europe for centuries.
- Along with the Battle of Tours in 732, the successful defence of Constantinople has been seen as instrumental in stopping Muslim expansion into Europe.
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- After 449 BCE, the Persians were repeatedly defeated in battle and plagued by internal rebellions that hindered their ability to fight the Greeks.
- Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) was a king of the Greek kingdom of Macedon.
- This campaign, initially against Bessus, turned into a grand tour of central Asia.
- Alexander fights the Persians at the Battle of Issus, as depicted on his sarcophagus
- Mosaic representing the battle of Alexander the Great against Darius (III) the Great, possibly at Battle of Issus or Battle of Gaugamela, perhaps after an earlier Greek painting of Philoxenus of Eretria.
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- The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts between the kingdoms of England and France for control of the French throne.
- These 116 years saw a great deal of battle on the continent, most of it over disputes as to which family line should rightfully be upon the throne of France.
- Then war continued, and the English were victorious at the Battle of Poitiers (1356), where the French king, John II, was captured and held for ransom.
- The Battle of Castillon (1453) was the last battle of the Hundred Years' War, but France and England remained formally at war until the Treaty of Picquigny in 1475.
- Martin of Tours, St.
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- Cyrus,
whose rule lasted between 29 and 31 years until his death in battle in 530 BCE
(Before Common Era), controlled the vast Achaemenid Empire through the use of regional
monarchs, called satrap, who each oversaw a territory called
a satrapy.
- In addition to describing the
genealogy of Cyrus, the declaration in Akkadian cuneiform script on the
cylinder is considered by many Biblical scholars as evidence of Cyrus’s policy
of repatriation of the Jewish people following their captivity in Babylon.
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inscription begins by tracing the ancestry of Darius, followed by a description
of a sequence of events following the deaths of the previous two Achaemenid
emperors, Cyrus the Great and Cyrus’s son, Cambyses II, in which Darius fought
19 battles in one year to put down numerous rebellions throughout the Persian
lands.
- Tariffs on trade were one of the empire's main sources of revenue, along with
agriculture and tribute.
- Despite the relative local independence afforded by the satrapy system, royal inspectors regularly
toured the empire and reported on local conditions using this route.
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- In 1071, the Byzantine Empire suffered two important defeats, against the Turks in the Battle of Manzikert and against the Normans in Bari, sometimes called the Double Disasters.
- He crossed over into Greece, pillaged the countryside, and defeated the Byzantine army at the Battle of Dyrrhachium in 1081 CE.
- At the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 CE, the Byzantine army was totally wiped out by the Turks.
- The brunt of the battle was borne by the professional soldiers from the eastern and western tagmata, as large numbers of mercenaries and Anatolian levies fled early and survived the battle.
- In this 15th-century French miniature depicting the Battle of Manzikert, the combatants are clad in contemporary Western European armour.
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- The Norman Invasion of England was led by William II of Normandy, who defeated Harold II of England in the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
- Learning of the Norwegian invasion, he rushed north, gathering forces as he went, and took the Norwegians by surprise, defeating them at the Battle of Stamford Bridge on September 25.
- Harold's army confronted William's invaders on October 14 at the Battle of Hastings.
- Here, a figure some think to be Harold Godwinson is shown falling at the Battle of Hastings.
- Evaluate the extent to which Harold's loss at the Battle of Hastings was due to the fact that he was ill-prepared for battle and whether it might have been possible to mitigate the circumstances that led to that fact
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- The Battle of Stalingrad has been described as the biggest defeat in the history of the German Army and a decisive turning point in the downfall of Hitler in World War II.
- The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe.
- Stalingrad's significance has been downplayed by some historians, who point either to the Battle of Moscow or the Battle of Kursk as more strategically decisive.
- At the time, however, the global significance of the battle was not in doubt.
- Argue for or against the categorization of the Battle of Stalingrad as a turning point in the war
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- The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, won by the American navy after code-breakers had discovered the date and time of the Japanese attack.
- The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
- The Battle of Midway, along with the Guadalcanal Campaign, is widely considered a turning point in the Pacific War.
- HYPO was also able to determine the date of the attack as either 4 or 5 June, and to provide Nimitz with a complete IJN order of battle.
- The Japanese, by contrast, remained mainly unaware of their opponent's true strength and dispositions even after the battle began.