The Salvation of Western Civilization: The Battle of Tours, October 10, 732 A.D.

Gibbon noted that had the Muslims won this day, all of Europe would have been Islamized and Western Civilization would have been extinguished.

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NOTE: My dear friend and true American hero Jack Wheeler wrote this essay several years ago. It is very much worth re-reading. — RDM

by Jack Wheeler
October 10, 2022

On this day, October 10th, 1,290 years ago in central France a few miles north of the town of Poitiers, two armies met with the fate of Western Civilization at stake.

On a forested hill stood 30,000 Christian knights led by their king Charles Martel (688-741) awaiting the onslaught of an invading horde of 60,000 Islamic Jihadis determined to extinguish Christianity from all of Europe and replace it with their Religion of the Sword.

For the last hundred years, they had exploded out of the wasteland of Arabia to conquer the Christian Middle East, Zoroastrian Persia, and all of Christian North Africa from Egypt to Morocco.  For the last twenty years after crossing the Strait of Gibraltar in 711, they had swept through the Iberian Peninsula of Spain and Po…