Today's installment concludes Battle of Tours,our selection from Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World by Edward S. Creasy published in 1851. For

So dreadful and so widespread were the ravages of the Saracenic light cavalry throughout Gaul that it must have been impossible to restrain for any

Exactly a century passed between the death of Mahomet and the date of the battle of Tours.Continuing Battle of Tours,our selection from Fifteen