Europe
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-03 | Author:Corrigan, Gordon [Corrigan, Gordon]
Sir John Hawkwood. Painting by artist Paolo Uccello created in 1436, currently displayed at the Duomo in Florence, Italy. A highly competent military commander made redundant by Edward III after ...
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Europe
August 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Brooks, Richard [Brooks, Richard]
The younger Marshal’s soldiers were dragged from the cathedral, where they sought sanctuary, but he escaped, ‘heeding his father’s warning by flight, as it is said’ (ibid.). Worcester lay deep ...
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England
August 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-22 | Author:Douglas Boyd
Was this Henry’s grand design? 1. Young Henry and Marguerite. 2. Princess Matilda and Henry of Saxony. 3. Re-attachment of Toulouse/Prince John and Alix de Maurienne/the Crown of Lombardy. 4. ...
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Europe
August 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Peter Armstrong [Armstrong, Peter]
Note: I have calculated the numbers of the Scottish army from the minimum number of men that would be needed to cover half a mile of front, allowing each a ...
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Scotland
August 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Reese, Peter
Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke (d 1324) Valence’s biographer, J R S Phillips, was critical of all the English nobles who served under Edward II at this time but, ...
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Great Britain
August 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-24 | Author:Colm McNamee
In March 1317 Arundel took advantage of Robert I’s absence in Ireland to lead an incursion into Scotland.176 It can hardly have been intended as an invasion aimed at permanent ...
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Europe
August 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-07 | Author:Phillips, Seymour [Phillips, Seymour]
PART TWO THE RISE AND RISE OF A NEW FAVOURITE The Younger Despenser was not a new figure on the political scene. The prominence of his father, Hugh Despenser the ...
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England
August 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Edward Cowan
9 The English Cult of Wallace and the Blending of Nineteenth-Century Britain Colin Kidd In today’s Scotland most invocations of the name of William Wallace are directed towards nationalist ends ...
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Scotland
August 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Lisa Hilton [Hilton, Lisa]
CHAPTER 12 PHILIPPA OF HAINAULT ‘Good angel of Edward and of England’ Philippa of Hainault’s queenship had a difficult beginning. Her arrival in London in December 1327 was marred by ...
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Women in History
August 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Juliet Barker [Barker, Juliet]
The official form and language used here tends to obscure what a revolutionary document this is: no less than the complete abolition of villeinage, not just on the king’s own ...
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Great Britain
August 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-01 | Author:McNamee, Colm [McNamee, Colm]
The English spent the night at Falkirk, and on the Sunday 23 June ‘after dinner’ they came within sight of the Torwood. They were anxious to reach Stirling Castle either ...
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Europe
August 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Robert Gildea [Robert Gildea]
In a second letter, sent the same day, Frenay told Delestraint that though he might be the head of the Armée Secrète, he was a conventional military man with no ...
( Category:
World War II
August 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-20 | Author:Michael Scott [SCOTT, MICHAEL]
CHAPTER 11 Survival Strategies Nowhere can we see better the plentiful array of survival strategies adopted to ride out the constantly unpredictable waves of diplomatic, military, social and economic turmoil ...
( Category:
Europe
August 22,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-03-01 | Author:Daniel Meyerson
“IT IS EASIER to understand humanity in general than to understand a single human being,” La Rochefoucauld tells us—a maxim which perfectly applies to Napoleon. For the role General Bonaparte ...
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Middle East
August 21,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-05 | Author:Thomas Macaulay
[Meanwhile, in Dublin, James’s Irish Parliament was passing acts of indiscriminate confiscation and attainder against English settlers and Protestants. In consequence of these acts, which revealed James as the tool ...
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Great Britain
August 21,2015 )
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