the Koran, then they are not needed, for the Koran is all sufficient."
In their westward course, the conquerors took Tripoli, Carthage and Tangier and the authority of the Greeks vanished over the whole of northern Africa to the Atlantic. Up north into Spain they swept and in less than three years the whole of Spain was subject to Moslem rule.
As might be expected, there was an invasion of France, and the Moslem victors marched northwards until they encamped on the banks of the Loire. And there it was that one of the decisive battles of the world was fought in 732 A. D., decisive, because the victory had far-reaching results, turning the tide of invasion southward again. The man who led the opposing forces was Charles Martel, afterwards founder of the Carlovingian dynasty and grandfather of Charlemagne. For six days he conducted a campaign against the Moors, skirmishing and attacking, then there was a final and concerted attack and three hundred thousand Moslems were left dead on the field.
Only once, strangely enough, was there an attempt made on the part of the Christian forces to invade Moorish Spain. It was under Charlemagne that the raid was attempted and the year of it was 777 A. D. Little was gained by the attempt, and the Franks were recalled by news of the invasion of France by the Saxons.
The continuance of Moorish rule in France was made easily possible by the fact that the people of the country found the Moslem an
