The Return of the Frisii

I wish the Frisians made some sort of return—it would fit with my Star Wars title theme a lot better. But there wasn’t really a return. In fact, things kept getting worse. In 772, Charles the Great, the new king of the Franks, invaded the East Frisian lands. After a series of battles against a combined force of Frisians and Saxons, Charles won, and thus took over all the remaining Frisian lands. And even though they launched a couple of uprisings—one in 782 and another in 793—the Franks quickly quelled them. It’s kind of like what would have happened if the Emperor would have killed Luke and the Death Star survived.

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