Anonymous ID: cc3932 Sept. 16, 2026, 4:57 a.m. No.25043118   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

A woman's voice can be heard in the video telling the pilot to โ€˜pullโ€™. Then she adds โ€˜What? You canโ€™t pull up?'. The camera begins to shake as the helicopter crashes.

Anonymous ID: cc3932 Sept. 16, 2026, 5:20 a.m. No.25043239   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

It was their purpose, after conquering France and Germany, to follow the Danube to its mouth, overturn the Greek empire, and thus surround the Mediterranean Sea with one great Moslem dominion. To this end troops were collected from Syria, Egypt, and the Barbary states, as well as from Spain; while Charles Martel, son and successor of Pepin d'Heristal as Mayor of the Austrasian Franks, drew to his standard all the Teutonic tribes from the forests of Germany and the marshes of the North Sea.

Near the center of France, between Tours and Poitiers, the two hosts of Europe and Asia, Germans and Arabs, stood seven days confronting each other, only partial skirmishes foretokening the great battle which was to decide whether modern Europe should be Mohammedan or Christian. At length the Saracen horsemen spurred against the German spears, which stood "like a wall of iron, a rampart of ice," to receive them. The combat lasted all day, and was renewed the next morning with unremitting fury; but at length the Arabs gave way; Abderrahman was slain; the other generals quarreled among themselves, and each sought his own safety by a separate and silent flight.

Their deserted camp was found filled with the wealth of the East and the spoils of France. Charles with his Germans had gained one of the most complete and decisive battles in the world's history.

 

At Tours the Franks fought as they had done two hundred years before at Casilinum, in one solid mass, without breaking rank or attempting to maneuver. Their victory was won by the purely defensive tactics of the infantry square; the fanatical Arabs, dashing against them time after time, were shattered to pieces, and at last, fled under the shelter of night. But there was no pursuit, for Charles had determined not to allow his men to stir a step from the line to chase the broken foe.

Anonymous ID: cc3932 Sept. 16, 2026, 5:21 a.m. No.25043245   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

Stretching from Morocco to China, the Umayyad caliphate based its expansion and success on the doctrine of jihad โ€“ armed struggle to claim the whole earth for God's rule, a struggle that had brought much material success for a century but suddenly ground to a halt followed by the collapse of the ruling Umayyad dynasty in 750 AD. The End of the Jihad State demonstrates for the first time that the cause of this collapse came not just from internal conflict, as has been claimed, but from a number of external and concurrent factors that exceeded the caliphate's capacity to respond. These external factors began with crushing military defeats at Byzantium, Toulouse, and Tours, which led to the Berber Revolt of 740 in Iberia and Northern Africa.