19 Dec 2024

So Much For Charles Martel’s Bravery

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Edward Gibbon on the Victory of Charles Martel at Poitiers, 732 A.D., in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 52:

A victorious line of march had been prolonged above a thousand miles from the rock of Gibraltar to the banks of the Loire; the repetition of an equal space would have carried the Saracens to the confines of Poland and the Highlands of Scotland; the Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet.

It wasn’t enough for the treasonous intelligentsia to give away the British Empire, they next proceeded to give away Britain, too.

What do you suppose would Nicholson or Napier say, if you predicted that one fine day, Labour would be in power, the former Conservative Prime Minister would be a Merchant caste Punjabi and the head of the opposition Tory Party would be a female Yoruba?

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