Charles begins to eye expansion opportunities in…
777 CE
Charles begins to eye expansion opportunities in the European southwest for his brand of Christian civilization.
He takes time out from his annual ravaging of the “heathen Saxons” to lead a large Frankish army southward across the Pyrenees toward Zaragoza in strife-torn Muslim Spain, where the Umayyads are resisting a takeover by the usurping Abbasids.
Barred from admission to Zaragoza, the Frankish army ravages several small towns.