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Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2024 01:27:51 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: For the 11th Day of White History Month we celebrate the halt of Islamic expansion at 3 major battles, Covadonga 718, Toulouse 721 and Tours 732. For one hundred years the armies of the Caliphate had appeared unstoppable. The Persian empire was completely destroyed. The Byzantine empire was driven back to Anatolia, losing Egypt and the levant. The library of Alexandria burned, everything was destroyed in their wake. Constantinople was besieged, surviving only due to the Theodosian walls which were then impenetrable. In the war for North Africa the Greeks held out for decades but once it fell, the Caliphate was on border of Western Europe. Visigothic Spain fell in only 7 years. All except for one small mountain territory in the North, led by the Visigothic noble, Pelagius of Asturias.
In 718 AD, with as few as 300 fighting men, Pelagius declared his Kingdom would not submit to Muslim rule. The Umayyads marched thousands of men into the narrow mountain pass to subdue the rebllious lord. They were lured into attacking in a bottleneck outside the Cave of Covadonga. Asturian forces stood in front of the Cave where Pelagius had set a trap. A quarter of his men were hidden on either side of the narrow passage, allowing for a surprise attack on both Muslim flanks. Not knowing how many Asturian forces were, the Umayyad general ordered a retreat, which quickly turned into a rout where thousands of his men were slaughtered. The small kingdom won it's freedom, one-day destined to reconquer the entire Iberian Peninsula.
Now the Arab forces were concentrated on Francia. The first lesser known invasion into Aquitaine was halted by the great Merovingian lord, Odo the Great at the Battle of Toulouse 721 AD. In a letter to the Pope after the battle, Odo claims to have killed 375,000 Saracens in a single day while losing only 1,500. Some historians consider this likely to be an exaggeration.
Returning with their entire army, the Muslims were now determined to subjugate the Franks. Their King, Charles Martel, was the only monarch in Europe who could field an army large enough to face them. Older sources place the Umayyad army at 80,000 mostly mounted Saracens while the Franks had only 30,000 with virtually no cavalry. The Battle of Tours on October 10, 732 represents the farthest expansion of the Umayyad caliphate into Europe. The battle was extremely close, both sides fighting desperately, knowing the fate of Europe and their entire respective Civilizations would be decided here. -
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Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 06:57:14 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: White History Month -
Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 06:44:17 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: The Rulers of Europe 400 BC to 2017 AD -
Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 20:50:40 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: For the 4th Day of White History Month we celebrate the earliest savior of Rome, Gaius Mucius Cordus, who prevented his young cities subjugation with a singular act of courage.
In 509 BC the fifth and last King of Rome, a tyrant named Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, was deposed by the cities nobles for the rape and murder of a young noble woman. In 508 BC, the neighboring Etruscan King Lars Porsena laid siege to Rome, seeking to subdue the revolutionary city-state. Rome was in its early development and was unprepared to repel the then more powerful Etruscan civilization.
A young man named Gaius Mucius Cordus volunteered to sneak into the Etruscan camp and assassinate King Porsena. After making it into the camp and killing the king's scribe, Gaius was captured and brought before the king. Porsena threatened to burn him alive. Gaius replied; "I am Gaius Mucius, citizen of Rome. I came here as an enemy to kill my enemy, and I am as ready to die as I am to kill. We Romans act bravely and, when adversity strikes, we suffer bravely. There are hundreds more Roman youths prepared to do no less. Watch, so that you know how cheap the body is to men who have their eye on great glory."
He stuck his right hand into the fire and stared at the king unflinchingly as it burned and melted away. Porsena, shocked, dismissed him from their camp, saying "Go back, since you do more harm to yourself than me". The king then sent peace envoys to Rome. Gaius was hailed as a hero upon his return, given the moniker "Scaevola" meaning "left-handed" and granted farm land on the right-hand bank of the Tiber, which became known as the "Mucia Prata" or "Mucian Meadows". Gaius appears in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. In Paradiso, Canto 4: 82–87, Mucius is depicted as a person possessing the rarest and firmest of wills. -
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Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 15:25:28 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: One of these is AI, the other is Greece. Which is which? -
Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 10:50:36 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: VOTE TOMOKO!
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