Don Quixote battles the windmills because he believes that they are ferocious giants. He thinks that after defeating them -- all "thirty or forty" of them! -- he will be able to collect the spoils and the glory as a knight. However, when he charges the "giants," his lance gets caught in a sail. The lance snaps and Don Quixote and his horse Rocinante are hurled some distance away to the ground.
When Sancho Panza asks Don Quixote what happened, Don Quixote laments that his enemy, the evil necromancer who stole all of his books, has also turned the giants into windmills at the last second. He did this to humiliate Don Quixote and steal Don Quixote's chance to fight in a glorious battle.
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