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The rear guard of Charlemagne's army is caught and massacred by Basques at the pass at Roncesvalles, Spain, in the Pyrenees Mountains. The Basques, fighting with lighter arms—and therefore more mobile than their opponents—probably sought to plunder the baggage train. The attack is memorialized as La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland, circa 1100s), in honor of one of the knights who died.
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