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421 – The Wake at Ely

The British History Podcast

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The Knights of Eley

We're told that out of the entire company that rushed across the sheepy garbage overpass, one single knight managed to make it to the defenses of Eley. Leo Frich adds that even at the time of his riding, they were still finding bodies in the fens, drowned by their own now rotting armor. And some of these bodies, he even saw himself. But we still haven't gotten to the best part of this story, because not everyone died.

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