Magna Carta
Gone Medieval
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How John Wins the War to Get Rid of the Charter
Magna carta is sealed by john at running me famously, but doesn't last in that form for particularly long precisely how does john wiggle himself out of this mess he's got himself into? Yeah, well, it's thanks to the pope. He simply gets the pope to quash the charter, the Pope in a sort of third was very ready to do that. And then john knew he was in for a real struggle, because of course he has then to go back to war, he has to win the war. But it's important to remember that magna carta was a negotiated document, john realized he could not win the war easily, but he hadn't lost it
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