Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Tours (Moslem Invasion of France).

Fought 732, between the Franks, under Charles Martel, and the Saracens, under Abderrahman Ibu Abdillah. The battle lasted several days--according to the Arab chroniclers, two, while the Christian accounts say seven--and ended in the fall of Abderrahman, when the Saracens, discouraged by the death of their leader, owned defeat, and fled, losing heavily in the pursuit.