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Medieval UK Battle Records Released Online

Posted by kdawson on from the next-year-at-agincourt dept.

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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  1. Stupid and short sighted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Terrorists could exploit this knowledge to close the trebuchet gap.

  2. Re:Surely this viloates EU privacy laws? by KronosReaver · · Score: 5, Funny

    ""The reason the sun never sets on the British Empire is because God doesn't trust the British in the dark.""

  3. Re:Man... by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

    yeah it is pretty cool but it's not worth carrying an umbrella all the time.

  4. I always suspected by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    that a family member had served in the military back in the day.

    Signed,
    John Arrowbait

  5. Re:!newsfornerds is way wrong. by amicusNYCL · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot: News for Nerds, and also XPeter

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  6. Well....there was this one... by djupedal · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I am Arthur, king of the Britons."

    "King of the who?" - "The Britons." - "Who are the Britons?" - "We all are. We're all Britons. And I am your king." - "Didn't know we had a king. I thought we're an autonomous collective." ... "I am your king!" - "I didn't vote for you." - "You don't vote for kings." - "How did you become king then?"

    "The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying, by divine providence, that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king." - "Listen, strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses. Not from farcical aquatic ceremony."