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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...'"
You do know, don't you, that before the Hundred Years War the English owned Normandy and other bits and pieces of what's now Western France? The reason they don't still is because the French gradually kicked them out.
The British don't lose battles, when they get their ass handed to them the operation in question is called a "90% success" (According to Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein). In fact one can describe much of the British involvement during WWII with two words "Bloody Shambles". If it hadn't been for massive US aid on all levels as well as the Soviets soaking up huge amounts of punishment, Britain would today be an island fortress off the coast of the Thrid Reich. It's much the same with the hundred years war as with WWII. The hundred years war was a decisive victory for the French but most of what one hears about in modern times is a few cherry picked British victories.
Oh but wait... I'm adopted and have no way of knowing who my ancestors were.
Can't wait to find out if I have a surprise family history of cancer, irritable bowel syndrome, Parkinson's, or some other shitty genetic defect unbeknown to me later in life.
Thanks, arbitrary protocols and restrictions of the adoption bureaucracy!
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