The Battle of Roncevaux Pas, Roncesvalle in 778 saw a large force of Basques ambush a part of Charlemagne's army in Roncevaux Pass, a high mountain pass in the Pyrenees on the present border between France and Spain. Here Roland, Hruodland, died 15 August 778, he was a Frankish military leader

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