
58 History of Everything: The 14th Century and How Much it Sucked
History of Everything
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I Love That You Know What You Should Do to Celebrate War
So in 1346 Edward had managed to recover financially from as you know escapades earlier and decides to mount another major offensive. He sails for normandy with around 15,000 men and he starts on a brutal campaign of shavoshay. Shavoshay is fast mounted raids all across france that are designed Not to attack military targets, but to instead pillage burn and destroy Every single possible thing that could potentially make money Along the path anything that could provide a resource was destroyed rather than actually take any kind of territory. The purpose of this was to terrorize Demoralize the people and to drain french financial resources Also to discredit the king because per the feudal contract the king
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