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Introducing: The French History Podcast - “The Battle of Poitiers 732”
June 30, 2023·1 hr 4 min·5 clips
In the chaos of Poitiers, Ahaman's death turned the tide as Frankish raiders sacked the Muslim camp.
As heard by us
A failed marriage alliance opens the road from Cerdanya to Bordeaux.
Dr. Gary Giroux presents the conflict as a failed diplomatic gamble that hardens into invasion. Eudo, still shaped by the Muslim devastation of his lands a decade earlier and suspicious of Charles, tries to keep the Frankish warlord at a distance through a marriage alliance…
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You enter through a marriage alliance meant to hold Charles at bay, then watch it turn violently sour.
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