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 76
... side by side with Anglo- Norman knights , overthrew the baronage of the duchy and annexed it to the English crown . They were trained by the King himself , who showed them how to repel cavalry . Though he was as grasping as his father ...
... side by side with Anglo- Norman knights , overthrew the baronage of the duchy and annexed it to the English crown . They were trained by the King himself , who showed them how to repel cavalry . Though he was as grasping as his father ...
Page 213
... side of Bruce - the Fabian general who had repeatedly survived by vanishing into his native mists , leaving them to starve amid barren mountain and flood . Now , like their subordinate garrison commanders who had long experienced his ...
... side of Bruce - the Fabian general who had repeatedly survived by vanishing into his native mists , leaving them to starve amid barren mountain and flood . Now , like their subordinate garrison commanders who had long experienced his ...
Page 290
... side , the companions only made the situation worse , arousing the hatred of every peasant and burgher . In vain they made chevauchées in the old familiar style to provoke the French to battle . In the summer of 1370 , with fifteen ...
... side , the companions only made the situation worse , arousing the hatred of every peasant and burgher . In vain they made chevauchées in the old familiar style to provoke the French to battle . In the summer of 1370 , with fifteen ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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