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Medieval UK Battle Records Released Online
eldavojohn writes "Do you have ancestors who served in the British military under Henry V or fought in the Hundred Years War? Look them up online now that 250,000 medieval battle records are online and available for searching. According to the project details (PDF): 'The main campaigns of the period were to France but there were others to Flanders, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Wales and Scotland, a much wider geographical spectrum than before 1369. In addition, garrisons were maintained within England (such as that held at the Tower of London), the Channel Islands, Wales and the marches, as well as at Calais and in Gascony. In the fourteenth-century phase of the Hundred Years War, the English also held some garrisons in areas of northern France, and in the fifteenth century phase, there was a systematic garrison-based occupation of Normandy and surrounding regions...'"
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Who'd want a French ancestor?
fucking bitch. nothing more than a sack of shit.
Nerds don't like racism, and this history is so Euro-centric it's not even funny. It's more lily-white than a KKK rally or the X Games. The whole thing is about Europeans either killing each other for being insufficiently white, or killing nonwhites for the same reason.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
whoever modded this down is a faggot shill. keep sucking that obama dick boys. you're truly fucked by the man.