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“Tours Medieval Battle Reconstructed” is an essay that uses the Battle of Tours as an example to show how history is written with the writer's bias affecting the story. The Battle of Tours was important in that it stopped the surge of Muslim conquest as they were defeated at the hands of the Franks. The Battle of Tours is more of a symbolic victory than a pivotal victory it was laid out to be by writers. The article, “Tours Medieval Battle Reconstructed” suggests that the Battle of Tours was a clash of about a thousand troops on both ends. A battle of this size would reflect a border skirmish rather than a massive battle. That would mean that this battle was not as vitally important to Western Civilization as modern literature suggests it

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