Eiffel approved the final design in 1884. 4. The project required a lot of metal (and elbow grease). Three hundred steel workers spent two years, two months, and five days, from 1887 to 1889
Battle of Tours. Engraving depicting Frankish leader Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours. At a point somewhere between Tours and Poitiers is the site of the Battle of Tours. There, in 732, Charles Martel, master of the Frankish kingdom, defeated Moorish invaders from Spain in a battle that proved to be the turning point in the advance of .