The Battle of Tertry is an important engagement in Merovingian Gaul between the forces of Austrasia on one side and those of Neustria and Burgundy on the other.
It takes place in 687 at Tertry, Somme.
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― H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, Vol 2 (1920)