Message #3238

[capt_s]

The podcast I was listening too suggested that some historians have called into question just how much of a "push" the Moorish (if I can call them that) incursion was.

Was it an invasion? Or just a raid? The evidence is lacking as per usual it seems.

Also, it seems that there were later incursions north of the Pyrenees which also failed. Which they feel tends to dilute the decisiveness of Tours a wee bit.

It was compelling enough to make me question my previous belief that Tours may have been THE most important battle in western European history.  It is an interesting debate regardless.