'Idhārī are to be believed, just a handful of men - barely sixteen individuals (Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam, op. cit., p. 138). The first task force in Europe would therefore have comprised mainly African recruits. This information, at first glance insignificant, paves the way for new perspectives that highlight the great diversity of the actors and gives this venture back its African and Mediterranean dimension. It therefore shifts the focus towards a pluralist history freed from the diktat of conventional and obsessive thought patterns that bring two homogeneous blocs into conflict: Islam and Christianity, East and West.  
The same texts also teach us that the meeting between the two armies took place on the plain of Guadalete (or Wādi Lakka) (from 28 Ramaḍān to 5 Shawwā̄ 92 AH/22-29 July 711 CE). It ended with the crushing defeat of Roderick, King of Spain (r. 710-11 CE). It is difficult to pinpoint the exact position of the battle with any certainty. Most Arab historians and geographers agree that it is located on the bank of the river, near Algeciras, in the kūra of Shadhūna, a district of Medina Sidonia (Ibn 'Idhārī, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 3, 8; 'Akhbār madjmī̄a, op. cit., pp. 8-9; Makkarī 1968, vol. I, p. 249, vol. III, p. 24; Ibn Khallikān, 1972, vol. V, p. 322). On the announcement of the victory of his lieutenant, the Umayyad governor of the Maghreb, Mūsā ibn Nuṣayr, hastened to join him at the head of an army of ten thousand soldiers, mostly Africans, from the month of Ramadān 93 AH/June 713 CE. After conquering the cities of Karamūna, Seville, Mérida and Córdoba, the two armies met in Toledo (Ibn 'Idhārī, op. cit., vol. II, p. 16; 'Akhbār madjmī̄a, op. cit., p. 18). Yet what is most surprising is the silence of the Arabic texts on the black troops engaged on European soil.