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To: Red Badger

Yes in Spain, but a Belgium man(Charles Martel) saved Europe as a whole.

21 posted on 08/09/2006 6:03:29 AM PDT by Marius3188 (Happy Resurrection Weekend)

To: Marius3188

Martel's efforts are overhyped. It took a multicentury RECONQUISTA to get Islam out of Western Europe. That battle was undertaken by Cornwall.

The French thing with Martel was a minor skirmish.

30 posted on 08/09/2006 6:09:10 AM PDT by muawiyah (-/sarcasm)

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