Let the boy win his spurs.
Ich dien. (I serve.)
Military Strategists
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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