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Excerpt from Italy and Her Invanders, Vol. 8: 774 814; Book IX. The Frankish Empire
The great, the Herculean labour Of Charles during all the central portion of his reign was his Thirty Years' War 1 for the subjugation of the Saxons. Subjugation, as Charles soon perceived, meant Christianisation, and would not be accomplished without it. Christianisation by moral and spiritual agencies was a slow process, too slow for the masterful Austrasian. There were therefore compulsory baptisms, fierce laws against obdurate heathens or relapsed converts, at last a terrible massacre. Then came great transportations of men, in the style of Sargon or Nebuchadnezzar Saxons carried away into the heart Of Frank-land; Frankish settlements planted in ravaged Saxonia. Thus at length, by harshest and least spiritual means, outward conformity to the religion which called itself Christianity was secured, and order reigned in Saxon-land.
Eighteen campaigns were needed to accomplish the work which was not ended at the time of the death of Hadrian. I here only lightly touch on the chief crises of that deadly struggle.
SO we may call it, dating from its on'gin (772) to its close but there were breathing spaces in which no actual campaign was undertaken.
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