Let the boy win his spurs.

Ich dien. (I serve.)

Edward, the Black Prince

Military Strategists

Edward, the Black Prince

The greatest English military commander of the Hundred Years' War, whose victories at Crecy and Poitiers established English tactical supremacy for a generation (1330-1376). Edward the Black Prince perfected the combination of dismounted men-at-arms and longbowmen that made smaller English armies consistently defeat larger French forces.

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Fortune is so changeable that one must not put trust in her.

I serve.

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