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==Anglo-Saxon Warfare== | ==Anglo-Saxon Warfare== | ||
The Saxon Wars were the campaigns and insurrections of the more than thirty years from 772, when Charlemagne first entered Saxony with the intent to conquer, to 804, when the last rebellion of disaffected tribesmen was crushed. After a bloody struggle that lasted thirty years (772-804), the Saxons were finally brought under Frankish supremacy by the great Frankish ruler, Charlemagne | The Saxon Wars were the campaigns and insurrections of the more than thirty years from 772, when Charlemagne first entered Saxony with the intent to conquer, to 804, when the last rebellion of disaffected tribesmen was crushed. After a bloody struggle that lasted thirty years (772-804), the Saxons were finally brought under Frankish supremacy by the great Frankish ruler, Charlemagne. At different times the Saxon wars of Charlemagne have been called "religious wars." See [[Saxon Invasion]]. | ||
In all, eighteen battles were fought in what is now northwestern Germany. They resulted in the incorporation of Saxony into the Frankish realm and their conversion from Germanic paganism to Germanic Christianity.'''The period of Anglo-Saxon warfare spans the 5th Century AD to the 11th in England.''' Its technology and tactics resemble those of other European cultural areas of the Early Middle Ages, although the Anglo-Saxons, unlike the Continental Germanic tribes such as the Franks and the Goths, do not appear to have regularly fought on horseback.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_warfare Anglo-Saxon_warfare]</ref> | In all, eighteen battles were fought in what is now northwestern Germany. They resulted in the incorporation of Saxony into the Frankish realm and their conversion from Germanic paganism to Germanic Christianity.'''The period of Anglo-Saxon warfare spans the 5th Century AD to the 11th in England.''' Its technology and tactics resemble those of other European cultural areas of the Early Middle Ages, although the Anglo-Saxons, unlike the Continental Germanic tribes such as the Franks and the Goths, do not appear to have regularly fought on horseback.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_warfare Anglo-Saxon_warfare]</ref> | ||