Lionheart and Lackland: King Richard, King John and the Wars of ConquestJonathan Cape, 2006 - 578페이지 Anyone who has seen 'The Lion in Winter' will remember the vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets: the towering, almost psychopathic Henry II, commander of the slaughter of Thomas a Becket, at war with both his wife, the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his sons (including the subjects of this remarkable book, Richard and John). And readers of the romance of Robin Hood will be familiar with the type-casting of Good King Richard, defending Christendom in the Holy Land, and Bad King John who usurps the kingdom in his absence. But how much do these popular stereotypes correspond with reality?
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... battle , for a handful of dead in their own ranks ; they did , however , admit to large numbers of wounded . Contemporaries thought Richard's victory at Jaffa miraculous and at this point in his career he definitively became a creature ...
... battle speech that the allied knights outnumbered their French counterparts three to one . Only Renaud de Dammartin , by far the best military mind in the allied camp , urged caution , but for this he was roundly berated by Hugh , comte ...
... battle within a battle , that this encounter took place at the southern end of the battlefield while a general melee was being fought to the north.105 After the great allied effort in the centre , the pulse seemed to go out of their ...