The 1906 capiton reads: "Franks at Tours searching Arab Camp In the year 734 the Frankish leader Charles Martel defeated a host of Mahometan Arabs at Tours and thus saved Europe for Christianity. At the end of a long day of desperate battle, the Arab leader was killed and his host fled. A pretended flight was a common trick of the Arabs, and the Franks waited under arms all night. In the morning they saw the abandoned camp and began cautiously to explore it, expecrting an attack from behind every tent. The camp, however, was really deseerted and all the plunder gathered by the Arabs had been l
The 1906 capiton reads: "Franks at Tours searching Arab Camp In the year 734 the Frankish leader Charles Martel defeated a host of Mahometan Arabs at Tours and thus saved Europe for Christianity. At the end of a long day of desperate battle, the Arab leader was killed and his host fled. A pretended flight was a common trick of the Arabs, and the Franks waited under arms all night. In the morning they saw the abandoned camp and began cautiously to explore it, expecrting an attack from behind every tent. The camp, however, was really deseerted and all the plunder gathered by the Arabs had been left behind, awaiting its new owners."
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