This Week In History
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24 Aug
26th August 1346 - A new type of warfare, that was to last until the nineteenth century, was unleashed by Edward III on the French in the fourteenth century – projectile warfare. Before gunfire the use of massed ranks of longbow men became a...
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01 Jul
1st July 1916 - This was to be the big breakthrough. The push that would split the German line in two and relieve the French who were under pressure at Verdun. It turned out that on day 1, Z day, as it was codenamed, the British Army suffered the...
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29 Mar
Palm Sunday, 29th March 1461 - Described as one of the bloodiest, largest and longest in our history the battle of Towton was one of the many battles fought between the Lancastrians and the Yorkists in the Wars of the Roses. This civil war started...