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Charlemagne, who is trying to establish the Christian Church in Saxony, massacres 4,500 Saxon hostages by beheading them, possibly in revenge for an earlier defeat suffered at their hands. He faces several insurrections, deports many Saxons, and fails to subdue the region until 804.
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