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 | This is problematic, however, because even had the Arabs won at Toulouse, they still would have had to conquer the Franks to have retained control of the region. |
| However, virtually all historians agree that the Christian victory at Toulouse was important in a macrohistorical sense; it gave Charles Martel badly needed time to strengthen his grip on power and build the veteran army which stood him in such good stead 11 years later at Tours. |
| Gibbons and other historians believe that Charles Martel was well aware of the growing storm from Muslim Spain and his primary focus in the decade between the Battles of Toulouse and Tours was to prepare for the later. |
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| The last major battle of the Peninsular War was fought over the important southern French city of Toulouse and - like many of the Duke of Wellington's attacks on fortified strongholds - proved a bloody affair. |
| The main British battle plan was to take the heights overlooking the city from the east and make the defenders' position untenable. |
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