Historic Battles
The Battle of Tours
732 · Poitiers, France
FoundThe prize. The field that turned an invasion
Where. Poitiers, France
Status. Found
Where. Poitiers, France
Status. Found
The account
Charles Martel halted the advance of the Umayyad armies into Europe near Tours in 732, a battle long remembered as the turning back of a conquest, its exact ground still debated.
Leads, where the trail points now
- The field is at Poitiers, France, and arms, shot, and relics still come out of the ground there.
- Detecting or digging needs landowner or park permission, and any significant find should be recorded; many battlefields are protected.
- Work the documented account of The Battle of Tours to learn where the fighting, the camps, and the rout actually ran before you look.
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