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John of Gaunt: prince without a throne

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The Hundred Years War

A lot of people seem to think the hundred years war was a series of famous battles. An actual fact, there were very, very few battles that were fought during theundred years war. It was almost a war of evasion in many ways. England was constantly invade france. The french would usually avoid pitch battle, because pitch battle didn't go too well for them. Think cressy er, think poitier and the late think algencourt. What did seem to work was avoiding the english and applying scorched earth policy - removing any sort of supply am food, am access, any loot, from the english path. And particularly in gaunt's experience of his campaigns in

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