A detailed account of the key years that saw Charlemagne take personal command and finally subjugate the Saxons — one of the most epic campaigns of his long reign.Charlemagne’s conquest of the Saxons was the hardest fought and most protracted of his wars; it involved 18 campaigns spread across 33 years, a great deal of lower-level fighting and the harshest final peace settlement that Charlemagne ever imposed upon a defeated foe. Rapidly taking on the character of a religious conquest from its outset, it also became the most important of all Charlemagne’s wars for the future direction and character of European history and began the long process of uniting the German-speaking peoples.With extensive photographs, full colour artworks, maps and bird’s-eye-views, this volume unravels the initial stages of a convoluted sequence of events that led to the conquest of the Saxons and ultimately Charlemagne’s consolidation of Saxony into the greater Carolingian Empire.
David Nicolle
Conquest of Saxony AD 782 785 [EPUB ebook]
Charlemagne’s defeat of Widukind of Westphalia
Conquest of Saxony AD 782 785 [EPUB ebook]
Charlemagne’s defeat of Widukind of Westphalia
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