‘ Abd-al-Raḥmân was a good general, but failed to do two things he should have done.

‘ Abd-al-Raḥmân had brought a huge force of Arab heavy cavalry and Berber light cavalry, plus troops from all provinces of the Caliphate, in the Umayyad attempt at a conquest of Europe north of the Pyrenees.

Neither wanted to attack, but Abd-al-Raḥmân felt in the end obligated to sack Tours, which meant he had to go through the Frankish army on the hill in front of him.

‘ Abd-al-Raḥmân trusted the tactical superiority of his cavalry, and had them charge repeatedly.

Thus, ' Abd-al-Raḥmân recalled all his troops, which did give him an even larger army — but it also gave Charles time for more of his veteran infantry to arrive from outposts of the Kingdom.

Charles gambled everything that ‘ Abd-al-Raḥmân would in the end feel compelled to give battle, and to go on and loot Tours.

It was a waiting game Charles won: the battle began on the seventh day, as ‘ Abd-al-Raḥmân did not want to postpone the battle any longer with winter approaching.

After successfully fending them off in Toulouse in 721 he was defeated close to Bordeaux, with the hosts under Abd-al-Raḥmân al-Ghafiqi command ransacking the lands south of the Garonne.

However, the next year, Uthman rebelled against the governor of al-Andalus, ‘ Abd-al-Raḥmân, who quickly crushed the revolt and directed his attention against Odo.

Both Western and Muslim histories agree that while trying to stop the retreat, ‘ Abd-al-Raḥmân became surrounded, which led to his death, and the Umayyad troops then withdrew altogether to their camp.

*‘ Abd-al-Raḥmân either assumed that the Franks would not come to the aid of their Aquitanian rivals, or did not care, and he thus failed to assess their strength before invasion.

but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.

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The Paris – Bordeaux – Paris race of June 1895 has sometimes been erroneously described as the " first motor race ", despite the 1894 event being decided by speed and finishing order of the eligible racers.

England, despite being 135 for 7, produced a second innings total of 356, Botham scoring 149 *.

Governor Gawler took over from Hindmarsh in late 1838 and, despite being under orders from the Select Committee on South Australia in Britain not to undertake any public works, promptly oversaw construction of a governor's house, the Adelaide Gaol, police barracks, a hospital, a customs house and a wharf at Port Adelaide.

Likewise a popular Hindu ritual form of worship of North Malabar in Kerala, India is the Tabuh Rah blood offering to Theyyam gods, despite being forbidden in the Vedic philosophy of sattvic Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, Theyyam deities are propitiated through the cock sacrifice where the religious cockfight is a religious exercise of offering blood to the Theyyam gods.

The count of Barcelos, a personal enemy of the Duke of Coimbra ( despite being half-brothers ) eventually became the king's favourite uncle and began a constant struggle for power.

It was not an overseas possession but national soil, much like Alaska or Hawaii are US National soil despite being ' discontinuous '.

In the 1970s Combined expanded overseas despite being hit hard by the recession.

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Epsilon Ursae Majoris ( Epsilon UMa, ε Ursae Majoris, ε UMa ) is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Major ( despite its Bayer designation being merely " epsilon "), and at magnitude 1. 76 is the thirty-first brightest star in the sky.

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The original Sparrow I and aborted Sparrow II became the AIM-7A and AIM-7B, despite both being out of service.

* traditional values, being often close to the position of the Roman Catholic Church, despite some social liberal and secular attitudes ;

Conversely, many fighter aircraft, such as the F-16, are often used as ' bomb trucks ,' despite being designed for aerial combat.

Edinson Volquez received three second-place votes in 2008 balloting despite no longer being a rookie under the award's definition.

The central dogma of molecular biology where genetic material is transcribed into RNA and then translated into protein, despite being an oversimplified picture of molecular biology, still provides a good starting point for understanding the field.

However, both the Soviet Union and Iraq, at a minimum, secretly defied the treaty and continued research and production of offensive biological weapons, despite being signatories to it.

Suetonius, meanwhile, regrouped his forces in the West Midlands and, despite being heavily outnumbered, defeated the Britons in the Battle of Watling Street.

Selig rejected the television deal that Frank McCourt negotiated that intended to bring the franchise out of bankruptcy, claiming McCourt violated the Baseball Agreements although no action taken against New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon despite being in a similar position.

Representation in the House of Commons was decided by the House itself, which resulted in boroughs ' being established in some small settlements for the purposes of parliamentary representation, despite their possessing no actual corporation.

The city had remained neutral through the Swabian War of 1499 despite being plundered by soldiers on both sides.

And yet, despite some disappointment with the performance of this first year of the new decade, 1960 has been a good year in many ways, with many overall measures of business having reached new peaks for the year as a whole.

In sum, I look for another good year for the electronics industry in 1961, with total sales increasing about 7% to $10.8 billion, despite the uncertainties in the business outlook generally.

Alberta has a small internal market and is relatively distant from major world markets, despite good transportation links to the rest of Canada and to the United States to the south.

A review of the methods used in trials of antipsychotics, despite stating that the overall quality is " rather good ," reported issues with the selection of participants ( including that in schizophrenia trials up to 90 % of people who are generally suitable do not meet the elaborate inclusion and exclusion criteria, and that negative symptoms have not been properly assessed despite companies marketing the newer antipsychotics for these ); issues with the design of trials ( including pharmaceutical company funding of most of them, and inadequate experimental " blinding " so that trial participants could sometimes tell whether they were on placebo or not ); and issues with the assessment of outcomes ( including the use of a minimal reduction in scores to show " response ," lack of assessment of quality of life or recovery, a high rate of discontinuation, selective highlighting of favorable results in the abstracts of publications, and poor reporting of side-effects ).

Regional relations remain good despite occasional issues with neighbors, especially regarding spillover from Colombia's armed conflict, including cross-border guerrilla crossings, the flow of refugees, and the spread of drug crops.

The Prophet Mohammed told them that, despite this being good, it is also a blessing to raise a family, to remain moderate and not to concentrate too much on one aspect as not only can this be unhealthy for an individual as well as upon society, it may also take one away from God.

Faith for good reason arises out of the mystery that underlies the very structure and nature of reality, a mystery that in its entirety will never be entirely demystified despite what those who have placed reason on their altar might like us to believe.

Three factors are generally cited that enabled Schröder to win the elections despite poor approval ratings a few months before and a weaker economy: good handling of the 100-year flood, firm opposition to the USA's 2003 invasion of Iraq, and Stoiber's unpopularity in the east, which cost the CDU crucial seats there.

Ghana and the PRC have had close and relatively good relations in that time despite a short period of relatively cold relations after Nkrumah was deposed in 1966.

In his June 2009, budget speech, Chief Minister Peter Caruana noted that Gibraltar's economy remains in good shape and Government finances remain healthy, solid, stable and robust, despite global economic and financial turmoil.

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It is often contrasted with low-density or LDL cholesterol or LDL-C. HDL particles are able to remove cholesterol from within artery atheroma and transport it back to the liver for excretion or re-utilization, which is the main reason why the cholesterol carried within HDL particles ( HDL-C ) is sometimes called " good cholesterol " ( despite the fact that it is exactly the same as the cholesterol in LDL particles ).

In a fuller description, when angels came to Abraham to tell him of the future punishment to be imposed on Sodom and Gomorrah, his wife, Sarah, " laughed, and We gave her good tidings of Isaac, and after Isaac of ( a grandson ) Jacob " ( XI: 71-74 ); and it is further explained that this event will take place despite Abraham and Sarah's old age.

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The Torah's commandment to love God " with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your might " ( Deuteronomy 6: 5 ) is taken by the Mishnah ( a central text of the Jewish oral law ) to refer to good deeds, willingness to sacrifice one's life rather than commit certain serious transgressions, willingness to sacrifice all of one's possessions, and being grateful to the Lord despite adversity ( tractate Berachoth 9: 5 ).

However, after an early brainstorming stage, and despite being non-believers, they agreed that Jesus was " definitely a good guy " and found nothing to mock in his actual teachings: " He's not particularly funny, what he's saying isn't mockable, it's very decent stuff ..." said Idle later.

The lorica segmentata eventually disappeared from Roman use, most likely due to its high cost and difficult maintenance despite its good qualities, although it appears to have still been in use into the early 4th century, being depicted in the Arch of Constantine erected in 315 during the reign of Constantine I to commemorate his military achievements.

Detailed photography and text revealed that the railway is still largely in good condition, despite some natural decay.

Kinnock explained his change of attitude, despite the continuing presence of 90 hereditary peers and appointment by patronage, by asserting that the Lords was a good base for campaigning.

Due to his lack of self-control and desire for pleasure, despite his good intentions, he will find himself swaying from the moral path.

They also objected to students being refused a high school diploma if they could not perform 36 separate mathematics skills, despite being given good grades in class.

The " old style " verse ( gushi ) is less formally strict than the jintishi, or regulated verse, which, despite the name " new style " verse actually had its theoretical basis laid as far back to Shen Yue, in the 5th or 6th century, although not considered to have reached its full development until the time of Chen Zi ' ang ( 661-702 ) A good example of a poet known for his gushi poems is Li Bai.

The PDP-10 product line cancellation was announced in 1983, including cancelling the on-going Jupiter project to produce a new high-end PDP-10 processor ( despite that project being in good shape at the time of the cancellation ) and the Minnow project to produce a desktop PDP-10, which may then have been at the prototyping stage.