5 Ancient Battle that Change the World - Battle Of Alesia 52 BC

[Taygibay]

There is no mention about Christ in any secular literature,in Roman tax records, or among recordings of any Scientist, or Philosopher, or among any religious leaders of his time.

Huh … "Ginetai de kata touton ton chronon Iêsous sophos anêr, eige andra auton legein chrê: ên gar paradoxôn ergôn poiêtês, didaskalos anthrôpôn tôn hêdonêi talêthê dechomenôn, kai pollous men Ioudaious, pollous de kai tou Hellênikou epêgageto: ho christos houtos ên. kai auton endeixei tôn prôtôn andrôn par' hêmin staurôi epitetimêkotos Pilatou ouk epausanto hoi to prôton agapêsantes: ephanê gar autois tritên echôn hêmeran palin zôn tôn theiôn prophêtôn tauta te kai alla muria peri autou thaumasia eirêkotôn. eis eti te nun tôn Christianôn apo toude ônomasmenon ouk epelipe to phulon."

Flavius Josephus in Antiquitates Judaicae, 93-84 AD/CE etc. Backed by Eusebius' reclaim 200 years later?

Just sayin' Tay.

 

[Sharpshooter12]

I know quite well about Battle of Tours, but also have a fair understanding about what is achievable and what is not.

Even if Franks had lost Battle of Tours, Muslims would have found it difficult to built upon that victory due to stretched supply lines, and would have been forced to withdraw south of Pyrenees sooner or later.There is a reason why muslims consider this battle as a minor skirmish.

In Europe, terrain negates advantage of cavalry over infantry, an advantage that made muslims successful to begin with. This has been proved by Romans, and after them by successful defence of Europe against Mongols, this battle, mercenary Swiss Pike armies with various European Kings, Agincourt et al.


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Line of supply was not a major issue at that time as the Arab forging parties could have supplied the army with enough food and fodder from the country side, they were not fighting in a desert or an arctic terrain.

Regarding your argument about the success of Infantry units like Swiss Pike Men and British Longbows against cavalry on European battlefields, well my friend both of these examples are from the late medieval era. We are talking about a battle in early 8th century when there was no Longbow and the main weapon for the infantry was still the sword. There must be some reason for the french or the whole western Europe for that matter to grant fiefs for producing Knights. So cavalry reigned supreme in the battlefield at that moment of history.

But that is not the point. Charles Martel was the lone leader that could have offered meaningful resistance to Arab onslaught. There was no other remarkable state at that time in France, Flanders or Germany so with him gone who knows where the Arabs would have stopped, remember in only 1 century their empire had stretched from Indus to Atlantic.