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Edward, the Black Prince
The greatest English military commander of the Hundred Years' War, whose victories at Crecy and Poitiers established English tactical supremacy for a generation (1330-1376). Edward the Black Prince perfected the combination of dismounted men-at-arms and longbowmen that made smaller English armies consistently defeat larger French forces.
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