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    The Battle of Roncevaux Pass (French and English spelling, Roncesvalles in Spanish, Orreaga in Basque) in 778 saw a large force of Basques ambush a part...
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    Roncesvalles Pass, Ronceval Pass or Roncevaux Pass (Spanish: Puerto de IbaƱeta; Basque: IbaƱetako Mendatea; French: Col de Roncevaux; elevation 1057 m)...
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  • During the Battle of Roncevaux Pass a combined Basque-Qasawi Muslim army defeated a Carolingian military expedition in 824. The battle took place only...
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    Roncesvalles (redirect from Roncevaux)
    the death of Roland in 778, during the Battle of Roncevaux Pass, when Charlemagne's rearguard was destroyed by Basque tribes. When a party of horsemen...
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    Paladin (redirect from Peers of Charlemagne)
    appearance is in The Song of Roland, written between 1050 and 1115, which narrates the heroic death of Roland at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. The legend is based...
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    part of the Frankish rearguard killed in retribution by the Basques in Iberia at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. The story of Roland's death at Roncevaux Pass...
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    of Roland (French: La Chanson de Roland) is an 11th-century chanson de geste based on the Frankish military leader Roland at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass...
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    brother-in-law to be, one of Charlemagne's twelve peers and brother of Aude, Roland's betrothed. He dies with Roland at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. Some critics...
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    ice of the rest of the moon, or by a residue left from the sublimation of Roncevaux-type water ice. Roncevaux Terra is named after the Battle of Roncevaux...
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  • Durendal (category The Song of Roland)
    be the sharpest sword in all existence.[citation needed] At the Battle of Roncevaux Pass, Roland took the rearguard to hold off the Saracen army troops...
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