(August 14, 2016 at 5:33 pm)abaris Wrote:(August 14, 2016 at 5:30 pm)Jehanne Wrote: You've studied it, great. Why was the battle fought? Over what? What was a Muslim army of between 30,000 and 60,000 troops doing in northern France?
What makes you think there actually were 30.000 to 60.000 troops involved? Answer me this and we take it from there. Do you know how many people actually lived in any of the particular regions of that day? Do you know what was considered a big army in the day? Do you take what early medieval writers claimed to be truth?
Historians themselves don't know, but I would invite you to find any credible author who says that it was less than 40K, both sides included.
