The Battle of Tours

John C. Scott

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TOURS, THE MOST SIGNIFICANT BATTLE IN HISTORY

This is not a history book!

It is not unlikely that this book will get me killed and I would not dismiss the danger to its publishers. If you have the courage to print and distribute it, there is no doubt that it will be one of the all-time best sellers in the world today.

Tours, the largest city in the Centre region of France, is the location of what was arguably the most significant battle in human history. Here, in 732, Charles "the Hammer" Martel stopped an invading army of sixty thousand Muslims cold. Martel slaughtered every one of them and left their "unholy "bones to rot as a testament to God and all who passed.

Since the birth of the so-called prophet Mohammed in 471 AD, the crazed followers of Allah rampaged throughout the Middle East and invaded southern Europe in an attempt to lay waste to all Christian lands, murdering, pillaging and proselytizing.

The spread of Islam throughout the Middle East was most certainly by and under the sword. The Egyptians were obviously not Arabs or Muslims until the armies of Islam swept into their territories. Equally, in every country that fell under the murdering hands of the Muslims, the people of those countries were subjugated and slaughtered, forced to convert or die. Indeed, no one can argue that Islam is not a diseased cult spread by force staining human history with blood.

The story I wrote is about Charles Martel and how he came to be there on that fateful day at Tours as the sole defender of the faith and all that stood against the Muslim onslaught that had penetrated so deeply into Europe.

I argue that had not Martel been able to stop them, it is highly likely that today, all of us, the entire Christian world, would have likely been destroyed and forced to convert or die. The spires of the minarets would today have been in the thousands throughout Europe and even into the new world.

It is highly probable that Islam would have retained a dominant position throughout the world just as they do today in all lands that have fallen under their obscene rule. With their seeming worship and devotion of and to ignorance, human civilization would have been stuck in the past. We would have had no modernization, no invention and no advancement- mankind today would still be living in the dark ages under the cruel eyes of the Mutawas (thought police) and vicious power hungry Ayatollahs.

It would be centuries later, during the Ottoman Empire, that Islam again threatened Europe. It is important to note that Martel's victory at Tours, and his later campaigns, prevented invasion of Europe by the Muslim caliphate. Martel preserved and protected Christianity and Western civilization, as we know it. Gibbons called him "the paramount prince of his age." A strong argument can be made that Gibbons was entirely correct.

The book describes the Battle of Tours as if it were happening today. it recreates the movements of the armies, the difficulties of provisioning such large numbers in those times and looks into the minds of the leaders and soldiers as they fought and died in that historic conflict. The book shows us the motivations of the mad Muslims who so desperately wanted to destroy western Christianity and delves into their reasoning then and now.

Tours is important because it was the first time a western Christian Army had defeated the marauding Muslims and it set the stage for the retaliation that was to follow in the form of the Crusades. Both the crusades and the attacks into Europe by the Muslims that preceded them, laid the foundations for the humiliation, anger and hatred that motivates the attacks on the west by the Jihadists of today.

The skein of history in those times is thin. The book does not rely on diaries and written accounts as one can in more recent battles. Some poetic license has been exercised to capture the probable thoughts and actions of the men on both sides of this most historic battle.

I worked to complete this project before the west is defeated by Islam and there is no one left to read it. The book discusses Islam in all respects and brings the reader up to today. The appendix includes a 'dirty laundry list' of Islam from 'root to fruit' that positively and unarguably hangs this wretched cult by its own petard.

It is not unlikely that this book will get me killed and I wouldn't dismiss the danger to its publishers. Salman Rushdie only barely escaped with his life. If you have the courage to print and distribute it, there is no doubt that it will be one of the all-time best sellers in the "infidel" literary world today. This book is the most explicit unveiling of Islam as it confronts the west in what may be its final act before self- destructing...

This book needs be read by every sentient individual in the western world!

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• Philosophie
• Philosophie médiévale, scolastique
• Scolastique
• Philosophie médiévale
• Philosophie antique
• Philosophie médiévale
• Philosophie médiévale
• History
• Philosophy
• Philosophie et théologie
• Medieval
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• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 21 février 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781456601485
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Battle of Tours
A NEW LOOK AT AN OLD ENEMY
by
John C. Scott
 
Copyright 2011 John C. Scott,
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-0148-5
 
 
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PREFACE
Throughout human history there have been wars and battles that changed the course of countries and civilizations. There have been advancements in engineering and science that have had remarkable impacts on human life, many for the better and some, for the very worse. Absolute evil does exist.
 
There have been individuals who have stood out and made incredible contributions to humanity. There have been individuals who have risen above the masses to lead their people and countries in desperate times. Equally, there have been evil men who have done terrible damage in their quest for power and dominance.
 
Any schoolboy can name many of these men. Men like Jesus, Socrates, Julius Caesar Charlemagne, Peter the Great, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, Churchill, Edison, Wright, Shakespeare, Galileo and Einstein. Then, on the other side, we all know Mohammed, Attila, Caligula, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and so on.
 
We must add one name to the list of truly great men and argue that, after Jesus Christ, he is the greatest benefactor of humanity who ever lived . Without him, the message of Christ might well have been lost to the world. We will tell you about a man, absent whom western civilization might well have never been- a man who freed western civilization to develop and without whom it is entirely likely that the world would today be a dark, vicious and brutish place, utterly devoid of hope, without compassion or advancement.
 
That man is Charles Martel and western civilization owes him a debt of gratitude that can never been repaid. This remarkable man was able to save Europe from the grasp of militant Islam which, as we will point out in the following chapters, was, and still is, infecting mankind at an alarming rate. Martel was the right man in the right place, at the right time and rose to meet the challenge- unlike anyone else in his time did or could have.
 
History, to a greater degree than you might think, determines who we are, where we are and what we are. History determines what countries are free and what people are slaves. History determines how people lived in the past and how they live today. Everything that exists today is the result of the forces in history that gave birth to the present.
 
We will show you what Charles Martel did and how he did it and you can decide for yourself. Today Western Civilization desperately needs another Charles Martel.
 
FORWARD
History, for many, is anything that occurred before we were born. Sadly, for those that think this way, life has some powerful and often-painful punishments in store.
 
We want to take the reader back some 1400 years into what must seem a dark and distant period, one totally irrelevant to the present time. Of course, we all must, and indeed, have no choice, but to live in our own short span of time. We however, do learn from history even if that history is of only a very few years. As children, we learn that the stove is hot and we learn not to play in the snow without warm clothes. We carry all the lessons of childhood into adulthood. To argue therefore that the lessons of the past are therefore of no benefit in the modern day is dangerous and fallacious in the extreme.
 
The question is, how far back in history should one go as regards the value of what has gone before. Do we need to know and heed the lessons of the Neanderthal to navigate through modern life? Probably not.
 
I would argue however, that once man begun collecting in towns and cities and, as early civilizations evolved, especially as one group warred on another, the lessons of these days are of great import and need be learned well. The advice and wisdom of such as Plato and Socrates are obviously of value and, of course, especially to be noted are the rise and fall of the great civilizations and nations.
 
Man’s history is replete with stories of war and conflict. Only the dullest of the dull would ignore the lessons that have been passed on to us. For one to navigate the perils of modern life and have the acumen to make true and correct judgments as regards the best way forward and, to comprehend the value of things in general, a reasonable knowledge of what has gone before is necessary.
 
My experience tells me that a beginning at the dawn of recorded history is more than sufficient for one to have the tools and knowledge to make correct judgments. In this book we will tell you about the greatest and most important battle ever fought by western civilization, who fought, why they fought and who won. The very fact that you’re reading this in English is a direct result of the outcome of that battle, further, we will show you that everything of importance in your life today is linked to what happened in those distant days.
 
We will show you why that battle mattered at that time and explain to you why it matters today. We will show you that the very same enemy who fought against western civilization 40 generations ago remains, until this very day, your most devoted enemy; one who would instantly, given the slightest opportunity, slice the head from your living body, an enemy who lives only to kill you and your entire family, an enemy who is doing everything possible to destroy western civilization.
 
I hope that these words frighten you and make you think of the consequences should you take the message of this book lightly. The history we are speaking of here is not just a story of something that happened long ago - not a book to be cast onto a distant shelf, to molder on a dim stack in some forgotten library, this is living history. Learn it well and heed the warning, while you still have time.
 
J.C Scott,
Jamacia, 2011
 
Chapter 1: THE BATTLE OF TOURS
SETTING THE STAGE FOR ETERNAL HATRED AND WARFARE
 
“Whoever seeks other than Islam as his religion, it will not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he will be with the losers” “Slay the idolaters and non-Muslims wherever ye find them, and take them captive, and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. 3:85
 
“Few battles are remembered 1,000 years after they are fought...but the Battle of Poitiers, (Tours) is an exception...Charles Martel turned back a Muslim army that, had it been allowed to continue, might have conquered Gaul." Michael Grant, author of "History of Rome", grants the Battle of Tours such importance that he lists it in the macro-historical dates of the Roman era.
 
Matthew Bennett and his co-authors of "Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World", published in 2005
 
Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, the Muslim general of the Islamic army that had defiled Europeon lands, awoke in France at dawn on the cold and rainy morning of October tenth in the year 732. He was about five miles from where the city of Tours is situated today. A dozen camp dogs were barking outside his tent, horses were neighing and his Umayyad army * was up and about. Abdul had slept badly this night and was in a surly mood. This was the final day of battle against a dangerous and clever foe, one he had not dared to contemplate.
 
He had lived forty two years and today was to be his last day on this earth. He washed, said his morning prayers and, rearing his posterior toward the sky while pressing his face into a small prayer rug, asked Allah for victory and begged his indulgence for not killing more of the infidels. Abdul, now refreshed with fanatic zeal, drank his morning tea and, meeting with his commanders, discussed the day ahead.
 
At eight that morning he ordered four of his guards beheaded for allowing the escape of enemy prisoners. Sometime in the night a band of Infidels had managed to infiltrate past his sentries, slicing the necks of many of his soldiers and releasing over two hundred of their compatriots. This had never happened before. Rahman was beyond furious.
 
* The Umayyad Caliphate (Arabic: ( Banu Umayyah) was the second of the four Islamic caliphates established after the death of Mohammed. It was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty, whose name derives from Umayya ibn Abd Shams, the great-grandfather of the first Umayyad caliph. Although the Umayyad family originally came from the city of Mecca, Damascus was the capital of their Caliphate. Eventually, it would cover more than five million square miles, making it one of the largest empires the world had yet seen, and the fifth largest contiguous empire ever to exist. After the Umayyads were overthrown by the Abbasid Caliphate, they fled across North Africa to Al-Andalus, where they established the Caliphate of Córdoba, ( Spain) which lasted until 1031.
 
At the outset of the battle Abdul and his advance forces had marched north toward the River Loire having outpaced their supply train and a large part of their army. They had easily destroyed all resistance in that part of what was then called Gaul. Abdul had ordered his army to split off into several raiding parties, while the main body advanced more slowly.
 
This Umayyad attack into France was late in the year because the men and horses needed to live off the land as they advanced. They were forced to wait until the local peasants wheat harvest was ready and then until a reasonable amount of it had been threshed (slowly by hand with flails) and stored- the further north, the later the harvest. While the men killed farm livestock for food, horses need grain and thirty thousand horses need a lot of grain! Letting them graze each day takes too long, and ‘in