I think it might be a Muslim thing. Muslims have a long memory - they still talk about the Crusades like they just happened yesterday. I'm sure they still fell the sting of having their asses handed to them at Tours, and being routed into the sea at Marseilles at a dead panicked run. I think they think they are at critical mass in France now, and feel like it's time to try taking France. Again.
Where is Charles Martel when France needs him?
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Where is Charles Martel when France needs him?
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake