Charles Martel

In October 732 (date and place debated; English name Battle of Tours; Arabic Balāṭ al-shuhadāʾ), Charles Martel, summoned by Odo after Bordeaux, stopped ʿAbd al-Raḥmān’s army between Poitiers and Tours. A week of skirmishes, then clash: Umayyad cavalry against Frankish infantry “like a wall” (Mozarabic Chronicle). Odo’s Vascones threatened the camp; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān was killed; night flight. Victory strengthening the Pippinids and weakening Odo, without “definitively stopping” Muslim presence north of the Pyrenees (Septimania until 759; Rhône raids from 734).

In 737, during the siege of Narbonne (Umayyad since 719), Charles Martel intercepted a relief army from al-Andalus near the mouth of the Berre (Bages-Sigean lagoon). After success at Avignon the same year, the mayor of the palace of Austrasia besieged the city; ʿUqba ibn al-Hajjaj sent reinforcements under ʿUmar ibn Khalid. Arriving by sea, the Umayyads tried to row up the Aude, hit Frankish river fortifications, then approached Narbonne overland. Guided through the Corbières by villagers, the Franks attacked by surprise before any enemy reconnaissance. After an initial clash, the break followed ʿUmar’s death; pursuit into the lagoons, booty and prisoners (French/English Wikipedia). Decisive Frankish victory over the relief army — Narbonne itself fell only in 759 under Pepin the Short.

In 737, after Avignon, Charles Martel besieged Narbonne, the strategic Umayyad port held since 719 (taken by Al-Samh). The city still had Roman walls (Sidonius Apollinaris, 465). A relief army from al-Andalus was intercepted and crushed at the Berre; the garrison nonetheless held. Lack of siege gear, winter, Hunald of Aquitaine’s hostility and Maurontius’s revolt in Provence: the siege was lifted before the end of 737. In withdrawal the Franks devastated Nîmes, Agde, Béziers and Maguelone. Narbonne remained Umayyad until 759. Partial Frankish military success (relief broken, region ravaged) but politically inconclusive as to capturing the city (French/English Wikipedia).

Major correction: no French/English Wikipedia page attests a pitched “Battle of the Têt” near Perpignan in 739. What is documented for 739, notably via English Wikipedia (Battle of the River Berre) and Paul the Deacon (Historia Langobardorum), is a second Frankish expedition to expel Maurontius from Marseille and regain Provence after the 736–737 campaigns. Martel allied with the Lombards; per Paul the Deacon, the Arabs withdrew on learning of that alliance. Invented strengths and the tale of intercepting a Muslim army in the Têt valley are removed for lack of Wikipedia source.