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💡 On 10 October 732, near Poitiers in France, the Frankish and Aquitanian forces of Charles Martel defeated the invading Umayyad army led by Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi, governor of al-Andalus. Historians such as Edward Gibbon have credited the victory as an important factor in curtailing the spread of Islam into Western Europe, though the exact size of the two armies remains disputed.