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The Golden Spurs of Kortrijk

Author : Randall Fegley
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786480548
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Spurs of Kortrijk written by Randall Fegley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Franco-Flemish region of medieval Flanders was a locus of important trade routes in the 13th and 14th centuries. Located in a prime position between the Holy Roman Empire and the North Sea (present-day northern Belgium), the urban centers of the region were surpassed in population only by the city-states of central and northern Italy. This positioning afforded the Flemish citizens of the region great prosperity and they formed guilds to protect their rights, regulate their working hours and standardize their wages. These guilds produced a cohesive unit of people eager to retain the rights they had gained. In 1302, French cavalry faced the determined Flemish soldiers on foot at Kortrijk (Courtrai). This book analyzes the battle that ensued, its origins, consequences and legacy. It also examines the everyday lives of the inhabitants of Flanders; urban dwellers, knights, nobles, women and others. This is the first major English-language study of the historic 14th century battle between the French and the Flemish, a conflict whose repercussions linger in modern Belgium. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

The Duke of York's Flanders Campaign

Author : Steve Brown
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526742705
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Duke of York's Flanders Campaign written by Steve Brown and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A superb read . . . destined to become the go-to book for anyone interested in this long-neglected period of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.” —The Napoleon Series To crush the French Revolution, the armies of the First Coalition gathered round France’s borders, the largest of which was assembled in Flanders. Composed of Anglo-Hanoverian, Dutch, Hessian, Prussian and Imperial Austrian troops, its aim was to invade France and restore the nobility to what was considered their rightful place. Opposing them was the French Armée du Nord. In command of the Anglo-Hanoverian contingent was the son of George III, the Duke of York. The campaign was a disaster for the Coalition forces, particularly during the severe winter of 1794/5 when the troops were forced into a terrible and humiliating retreat. Britain’s reputation and that of its military leaders was severely diminished, with the forces of the Revolution sweeping all before them on a tide of popularism. Yet, from this defeat grew an army that under the Duke of Wellington would eventually crush the Revolution’s greatest general, Napoleon Bonaparte. Of the Flanders Campaign, Wellington, who fought as a junior officer under the Duke of York, remarked that the experience had at least taught him what not to do. Napoleon Series research editor Steve Brown has produced one of the most insightful, and much-needed studies of this disastrous but intriguing campaign, with particular focus on the British Army’s contribution. With copious maps and nineteen appendices including detailed orders of battle, he concludes this important work with an analysis that draws striking, and significant comparisons with the Flanders campaigns of 1914 and 1940. How history repeats itself . . .

The Gateway to France

Author : James Bentley
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gateway to France written by James Bentley and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1991 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Battle for the Escaut 1940

Author : Jerry Murland
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473852617
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Battle for the Escaut 1940 written by Jerry Murland and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 10 May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the command of Lord Gort, moved forward from the Franco-Belgian border and took up positions along a 20-mile sector off the River Dyle, to await the arrival of the German Army Group B. Their expected stay was considerably shorter than planned as the German Army Group A pushed its way through the Ardennes and crossed the Meuse at Sedan, scattering the French before them. Little did the men of the BEF realize that the orders to retire would result in their evacuation from Dunkirk and other channel ports. The line of the River Escaut was seen as the last real opportunity for the Allied armies to halt the advancing German Army, but the jigsaw of defense was tenuous and the allied hold on the river was undone by the weight of opposing German forces and the speed of the armored ÔBlitzkriegÕ thrust further south. As far as the BEF were concerned, the Battle for the Escaut took place on a 30-mile sector from Oudenaarde to Blharies and involved units in a sometimes desperate defense, during which two Victoria Crosses were awarded. This book takes the battlefield tourist from Oudenaarde to Hollain in a series of tours that retrace the footsteps of the BEF. With the help of local historians, the author has pinpointed crucial actions and answered some of the myriad questions associated with this important phase of the France and Flanders campaign of 1940.

The Battle of Flanders, 1940

Author : Ian Hay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Flanders, 1940 written by Ian Hay and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medieval Flanders

Author : David M Nicholas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131790155X
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Flanders written by David M Nicholas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cradle of northern Europe's later urban and industrial pre-eminence, medieval Flanders was a region of immense political and economic importance -- and already, as so often later, the battleground of foreign powers. Yet this book is, remarkably, the first comprehensive modern history of the region. Within the framework of a clear political narrative, it presents a vivid portrait of medieval Flemish life that will be essential reading for the medievalist -- and a boon for the many visitors to Bruges and Ghent eager for a better understanding of what they see.

A Storm in Flanders

Author : Winston Groom
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555847803
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book A Storm in Flanders written by Winston Groom and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Forrest Gump: “A fascinating, evenhanded, page-turning account” of Ypres’s pivotal WWI battles (San Francisco Chronicle). The Ypres Salient in Belgian Flanders was the most notorious and dreaded territory in all of World War I—possibly of any war in history. After Germany’s failed attempt to capture Britain’s critical ports along the English Channel, a bloody stalemate ensued in this pastoral area no larger than the island of Manhattan. Ypres became a place of horror, heroism, and terrifying new tactics and technologies: poison gas, tanks, mines, air strikes, and the unspeakable misery of trench warfare. Drawing on the journals of the men and women who were there, Winston Groom has penned a drama of politics, strategy, the human heart, and the struggle for victory against all odds. This ebook features 16 pages of black-and-white historical photographs. “Everything nonfiction should be.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram “Groom reconstructs a forgotten military passage that serves as a cautionary tale about war’s consequences.” —Pittsburgh Tribune-Review “Groom’s account, full of detail and the smell of gunsmoke, is expertly paced and free of dull stretches.” —Kirkus Reviews “Moving . . . Inspiring . . . An important and brilliantly written book.” —Booklist

The Lion of Flanders

Author : Hendrik Conscience
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326062158
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Lion of Flanders written by Hendrik Conscience and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lion of Flanders is an historical novel, relating the Flemish struggle for freedom against France in the medieval times.

A Tour Through Part of France and Flanders

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book A Tour Through Part of France and Flanders written by and published by . This book was released on 1768 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anonymous English travelogue detailing nine months spent in northern France and Flanders in the mid-eighteenth century. The author states in the preface that "every Englishman is inquisitive with regard to the religious ceremonies of foreign countries, and, therefore, I have in this work exerted myself to the utmost to satisfy this natural and laudable curiosity" (page ii), and most of the work is in fact occupied with the life and customs of various abbeys and convents. The work is particularly notable for its depiction of the lives of nuns, as well as the author's laudatory accounts of Jesuit colleges for the Catholic education of English students, such as St. Omer.

25th Division in France and Flanders

Author : M. Kincaid-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781847341037
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book 25th Division in France and Flanders written by M. Kincaid-Smith and published by . This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gentleman's Guide, in a Tour Through Part of France and Flanders

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Gentleman's Guide, in a Tour Through Part of France and Flanders written by and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Battle of the Golden Spurs (Courtrai, 11 July 1302)

Author : J. F. Verbruggen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 0851158889
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of the Golden Spurs (Courtrai, 11 July 1302) written by J. F. Verbruggen and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flemish townspeople defeat the cream of French nobility, and explode the myth of knightly invincibility for ever. Discussion of bias in sources and difficulties of interpretation preface careful account of what actually happened during the three-hour battle. On 11 July 1302, below the town walls of Courtrai, the most splendid army of knights in Christendom, the flower of the French nobility, was utterly defeated by Flemish rebels, common workers and peasants. The French knights, products of a lifetime's training, were ably led; but so too were the Courtrai townspeople, in addition to being well-armed, and their victory, despite their lack of military skills (and golden spurs), put an end to the enduring myth of the invincibility of the knight. A French explanation of the terrible defeat was immediately given, intended to save the honour and pride of the French nobility; in Flanders the victory was glorified as a just reward for the bravery of the townsmen and the competence of their commanders. Unfortunately there were no impartial witnesses. Any account of the battle must therefore pay careful attention to the personalities of the chroniclers, their nationality, and their political and social leanings, as well as their personal sympathies. Verbruggen's study is prefaced by discussion of the problems of reconstruction and extensive consideration of the sources, showing the difficultiesfaced by medieval military historians in attempts to interpret them. He then offers his own account of the events of that dramatic day, a case study in the reconstruction of events in one of the greatest battles of the middle ages.J.F. VERBRUGGEN lectured at the Royal Military School in Brussels, and then taught in Africa, retiring as Professor of History, University of Congo, and University of Bujumbura (Burundi). He is also the author of The Art ofWarfare in Western Europe. Originally published in Dutch in 1954, translated and updated.

The Flanders Road

Author : Claude Simon
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681375958
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Flanders Road written by Claude Simon and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature, a riveting, stylistically audacious modernist epic about the French cavalry's bloody face-off against German Panzer tanks during WWII. On a sunny day in May 1940, the French army sent out the cavalry against the invading German army’s panzer tanks. Unsurprisingly, the French were routed. Twenty-six-year-old Claude Simon was among the French forces. As they retreated, he saw his captain shot off his horse by a German sniper. This is the primal scene to which Simon returns repeatedly in his fiction and nowhere so powerfully as in his most famous novel The Flanders Road. Here Simon’s own memories overlap with those of his central character, Georges, whose captain, a distant relative, dies a similar death. Georges reviews the circumstances and sense—or senselessness—of that death, first in the company of a fellow prisoner in a POW camp and then some years later in the course of an ever more erotically charged visit to the captain’s widow, Corinne. As he does, other stories emerge: Corinne’s prewar affair with the jockey Iglésia, who would become the captain’s orderly; the possible suicide of an eighteenth-century ancestor, whose grim portrait loomed large in Georges’s childhood home; Georges’s learned father, whose books are no help against barbarism. The great question throughout, the question that must be urgently asked even as it remains unanswerable, is whether fiction can confront and respond to the trauma of history.

Flanders and the Anglo-Norman World, 1066-1216

Author : Eljas Oksanen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521760992
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Flanders and the Anglo-Norman World, 1066-1216 written by Eljas Oksanen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relations and exchanges between Flanders and the Anglo-Norman realm following the union of England and Normandy in 1066.

History of France

Author : Jules Michelet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book History of France written by Jules Michelet and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Burgundians

Author : Bart Van Loo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789543452
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (895 download)

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Download or read book The Burgundians written by Bart Van Loo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful history of the great dynasty of the Netherlands' Middle Ages. 'A sumptuous feast of a book' The Times, Books of the Year 'Thrillingly colourful and entertaining' Sunday Times 'A thrilling narrative of the brutal dazzlingly rich wildly ambitious duchy' Simon Sebag Montefiore 5 stars! Daily Telegraph 'A masterpiece' De Morgen 'A history book that reads like a thriller' Le Soir At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, with close links to the English kingdom. Torn apart by the dynastic struggles of early modern Europe, this extraordinary realm vanished from the map. But it became the cradle of what we now know as the Low Countries, modern Belgium and the Netherlands. This is the story of a thousand years, a compulsively readable narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury and madness. It is about the decline of knightly ideals and the awakening of individualism and of cities, the struggle for dominance in the heart of northern Europe, bloody military campaigns and fatally bad marriages. It is also a remarkable cultural history, of great art and architecture and music emerging despite the violence and the chaos of the tension between rival dynasties.

Neither Up Nor Down

Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : From Reason to Revolution
ISBN 13 : 9781913118907
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Neither Up Nor Down written by Philip Ball and published by From Reason to Revolution. This book was released on 2020-04-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Military history of the 1793-95 campaign in Flanders and the Netherlands