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Right Policy Bad Execution Part I Capture of Jean II at the Battle of Poitiers 1358 during the Hundred Years War In past his...

Sources and “Truth” France in 1429 C.E. I n a previous posting I took apart the book Conquest by Juliet Barker,1 about the conq...

Joan’s Violated “Purity”? Jeanne d'Arc Much has been and will continue to be written about Jeanne d’Arc. (Joan of Arc in En...

“Good Duke Humphrey” A Note Humphrey: Duke of Gloucester Little known today Humphrey of Lancaster, (1390-1447 C.E.), was a y...

So Annoying Why Osprey Books are problematic.   Book Cover   Osprey has for many years been publishing a series of books coveri...

Patriotically Correct Book Cover Although there are a vast number of books written about the Hundred Years War there is a distinct ...

Down the Memory Hole An Unknown French Victory of the Hundred Years War du Guesclin The Hundred Years war between England and Fra...

English Forces sent to France in the later part of the Hundred Years War A Preliminary Review and Analysis Divided France in 1429 C.E. Th...

Losing all by Winning all   Page of Treaty of Troyes One of the greatest humiliations in French history was the Treaty of Troye...

The Bourgeois of Paris and his Journal Part of Paris Mid 15th Century In the latter half of the Hundred Years War a citizen of Paris called...

The Legitimacy of Charles VII Charles VII It is a common historical tale that Charles VII, better known has Joan of Arc’s Dauphin wa...