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The Hundred Years War and Our Domestic Conflict

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

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The Tragic Death of the French Heavy Cavalry

French heavy cavalry had been the scourge of the European battlefield. Once you unleash these 1500 or 2000 French heavy knights the Franks they had been the terror remember of the Crusaders and I mean of the Islamic or once if they were properly used on dry hard ground there was no way they could lose. But that rarely occurred finally people caught on to them so they tried to lure the French into difficult ground where rains had made it muddy or where the enemy tried to bait them but was too far from their flanks.

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