[Eurotwit]

Charles Martel, known as 'The Hammer,' smites a Muslim warrior during the Battle of Tours in 732. Martel, ruler of the Franks, turned back an Islamic onslaught that for a century had appeared unstoppable.

'The events that rescued our ancestors of Britain, and our neighbors of Gaul, from the civil and religious yoke of the Koran.' --Historian Edward Gibbon, describing the Frankish victory over the Moslems at Tours.

[Eurotwit]

Title shortened due to length.

[Paleo Conservative]

For freedom from all of these obligations, you might spare a minute sometime today, and every October, to say a silent "thank you" to a gang of half-savage Germans and especially to their leader, Charles "The Hammer" Martel.

[ncountylee]

Thanks Charles.

[ConorMacNessa]

I thank Charles Martel every day, as I do Our Lady of Lepanto.

[jocon307]

"Which is to say that if in the next life you can't find the Pearly Gates, just follow the sound of the loud German drinking songs. You'll get to the right place."

That IS my plan, or barring that, I'll find the Irish!

Great post, and we all do well to remember this stuff is not bs, it is all true. TROP is at war against us, we shy from that at our peril.

[wildcatf4f3]

thanks

[FormerLib]

Good thing for Martel that Bill Clinton wasn't around to bomb the French and German civilian populace for resisting the Muhammedans so successfully!

Ah, the good old days!

[nickcarraway]

...yet

[spetznaz]

Thanks for the history lesson. Very interesting and quite enlightening. Thanks.

[Republic of Texas]

Sounds like not much has changed. Muslims are all bluster and badass when facing a much weaker foe. But put them in front of real men, with weapons and anger and the skill to use both, and they fall apart. Hell their losing streak predates the French! They are spoiled children who need a good spanking.

[Amish with an attitude]

"Soon one in 10 Frenchmen may be Muslim"

The fruit of a poor immigration policy.

[nickcarraway]

A king's bastard son who

Interesting, when you consider the man who lead the forces at Lepanto was likewise the illegitimate son of an emperor.

[Eagles6]

bttt

[Cinnamon]

Thanks Charles.

[wardaddy]

Great Piece.

I agree wholeheartedly and those PC freepers who think otherwise are friggin soft as mush fools

[wickedpinto]

Good post. I always enjoy this kind of stuff. I must say however, that my favorite part is that you learned first of Martel, and this war from a Comic.

Many of the things that are thought infantile and nerdy are often perty derned useful in inspiring young minds to actually learn rather than engage in the gigo of education by committee.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Very entertaining. But he does have a number of minor facts wrong, and draws a few unwarranted conclusions here & there.

For instance --- But the Franks, Viking blood coursing in their veins --- He's off by a century or two here! It was Rollo (the ancestor of Wilhelm Der Konqueror) who first brought "Viking blood" into the heart of France. Rollo died 200 years after Martel's moment of glory.

[fella]

I think you've found the subject of Mel Gibson's next film.

[Falconspeed]

Excellent read. Thanks.

[Cruz]

Excellent post, thanks