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Friday, February 19, 2016
Charles the hammer
So after the Muslims conquered the Visigoths in Spain. But they wanted more than that so they went into the Franks and went to attack them. They were very proud and said they were like a wind that could not be stopped. But then they got stopped. The Franks in France asked there king to stop the Muslims. He said be of good cheer and went with a countless army of soldiers and went to attack the Muslims. The Muslims had gathered a lot of gold and other precious stuff and settled outside of the big city of the Franks. They wanted to conquer this city and get all of it's riches. The general of the Muslims saw that Charles was coming and was going to tell his men to drop all of their riches and go attack the Franks. But then he thought that they would rebel against him so he didn't do anything. So once they came close his army went to attack them and they fought all day and couldn't fight in the night because it was to dark. So they wanted until the first light of dawn and started fighting again but then they thought about their riches and went to protect them. The general tried to make them stay but they wouldn't. So the general got killed and once he was dead the other Muslims fled. Charles was then nicknamed Martel which means hammer in Latin. So Charles the Hammer because he stopped the Muslims.
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barbarians,
History,
Islam
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