Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page 208
... crossed the border it was with £ 2000 of English money paid for a truce till February . Next year King Robert , as Bruce had now become to almost every Scotsman , again crossed the border and harried Tynedale , penetrating to the walls ...
... crossed the border it was with £ 2000 of English money paid for a truce till February . Next year King Robert , as Bruce had now become to almost every Scotsman , again crossed the border and harried Tynedale , penetrating to the walls ...
Page 244
... crossed the Seine . In the next five days it marched seventy miles due north , hoping to cross the Somme between Amiens and Abbeville and join hands with the Flemings who were besieging Béthune , fifty miles beyond that river . But ...
... crossed the Seine . In the next five days it marched seventy miles due north , hoping to cross the Somme between Amiens and Abbeville and join hands with the Flemings who were besieging Béthune , fifty miles beyond that river . But ...
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... crossed the Roncesvalles pass , driving his heavily accoutred men , horses and wagons through the wintry gorges of Navarre to the Castilian border . This chivalric expedition into Spain , ten years after Poitiers and conducted in ...
... crossed the Roncesvalles pass , driving his heavily accoutred men , horses and wagons through the wintry gorges of Navarre to the Castilian border . This chivalric expedition into Spain , ten years after Poitiers and conducted in ...
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