Template:Did you know nominations/Gascon campaign of 1345


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:00, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Gascon campaign of 1345

 * ... that the Gascon campaign of 1345 was the first successful land campaign of the Hundred Year's War, eight years after it started? Source: Gribit, Nicholas (2016). Henry of Lancaster's Expedition to Aquitaine 1345–46. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1783271177, p. 1.
 * ALT1:... that the English were so successful during the Gascon campaign of 1345 that their French opponents disbanded their army in dispair? Source: Sumption, Jonathan (1990). Trial by Battle. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0571200955, pp. 470–71.
 * Reviewed: J. R. Cadot

Created by Gog the Mild (talk). Self-nominated at 23:50, 8 October 2018 (UTC).


 * Excellent article. Hook checks out to p.1 of source. Not keen on ALT1, as disbandment was very common in medieval warfare.