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[emilio]

Battle of "Navas de Tolosa" 1212 , A spanish kindoms army defeats a masive almohade army

 

[emilio]

The King of Castile Alfonso VIII, with the support of the Kings of Navarra and Aragon, Sancho VII and Pedro II, the Archbishop of Toledo Jimenez de Rada, the military orders of the Temple, the Hospital, Santiago and Calatrava, as well as a handful of knights French and other European countries, faced in the fields of the Navas de Tolosa, the army of Muhammad al Nasir. Sources estimate that the Almohad army consisted of more than 200,000 men, doubling the Christian strength. Still, his defeat was crushing

 

[emilio]

Al Nasir's army tried to cross, destroying the Christian kingdoms of Spain, devastate the south of France and water their horses in the Tiber, giving a brutal and perhaps definitive blow to Western Christendom. the joint action of the three Hispanic kings disrupted their plans and changed the future of Europe

 

[Mike97]

Great looking line of figures !