Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... army's disciplinary unit being a ' lance'1 a professional team , rather like the crew of a modern aircraft , consisting of a knight or man - at - arms , two archers , a swordsman or courtillier , and a pair of pages armed with daggers ...
... army's disciplinary unit being a ' lance'1 a professional team , rather like the crew of a modern aircraft , consisting of a knight or man - at - arms , two archers , a swordsman or courtillier , and a pair of pages armed with daggers ...
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... army . ' Next to God , ' it was said of him , ' he reposed his confidence in the valour of his subjects . ' Norman , Angevin , Saxon and Celt , his men all thought of themselves as Englishmen . After the King's inspection the army ...
... army . ' Next to God , ' it was said of him , ' he reposed his confidence in the valour of his subjects . ' Norman , Angevin , Saxon and Celt , his men all thought of themselves as Englishmen . After the King's inspection the army ...
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... army issued out of any town ; it was a joy ' , wrote Froissart , ' to behold them . ' It rained all the way . They rode through Artois and past the city of Arras and over the chalky Somme uplands - one day to be the battlefield of ...
... army issued out of any town ; it was a joy ' , wrote Froissart , ' to behold them . ' It rained all the way . They rode through Artois and past the city of Arras and over the chalky Somme uplands - one day to be the battlefield of ...
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