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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:49, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Battle of Caen (1346)

 * ... that after capturing the French town of Caen an English army massacred the population and engaged in an orgy of rape? Source: Sumption, Jonathan (1990). Trial by Battle. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0571200955 p. 510; Ormrod, W. Mark (2012). Edward III. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11910-7 p. 275; Website: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Edward III by W M Ormrod. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/8519
 * Reviewed: Mexico at the 1994 Winter Olympics

Improved to Good Article status by Gog the Mild (talk). Self-nominated at 23:44, 21 December 2018 (UTC).