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... lance ' as a method of reckoning troops . But if we hear that Hawkwood led a thousand lances into such - and - such a battle , it would be quite wrong to picture him charging the enemy with a thousand lancers galloping behind him as in ...
... lance ' as a method of reckoning troops . But if we hear that Hawkwood led a thousand lances into such - and - such a battle , it would be quite wrong to picture him charging the enemy with a thousand lancers galloping behind him as in ...
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... lances , with three horses to each lance as is the custom , and also of four hundred infantry . And after six months they shall have , additional to what is agreed above , fifty more lances for their two sons under them ...
... lances , with three horses to each lance as is the custom , and also of four hundred infantry . And after six months they shall have , additional to what is agreed above , fifty more lances for their two sons under them ...
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... lances , later raised to thirty - five . It is said , and is wholly credible , that the striking features and proud bearing of the young officer caught the fancy of the amorous Queen Joanna . He regu- larly afterwards used the badge she ...
... lances , later raised to thirty - five . It is said , and is wholly credible , that the striking features and proud bearing of the young officer caught the fancy of the amorous Queen Joanna . He regu- larly afterwards used the badge she ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The first Free Companies | 27 |
The English captain | 41 |
Copyright | |
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