Month: October 2023
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October 25: Agincourt
On this day in 1415, Henry V of England and his small army defeated a much larger French cavalry army at Agincourt. Henry was trying to establish his claim to the French throne, part of the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453) between England and France for control of the Aquitaine and Normandy, provinces in France to…
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October 24: Chartres Cathedral
We haven’t been publishing here much (or at all) for a long while. We’ve been teaching and upgrading our platform and generally busy running the school. Most days, we try to put something in the all-day Commons chat for people to think about as they wait for class to start. Often the ideas for these…