2024

THE CHAPEL OF THE THREE HUNDRED BODIES

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It was in this chapel that the three hundred knights were buried, the disparition of which largely the forces of the French nobility. The shock occurs on the morning of Saturday, August 26, 1346. Because of their digital inferiority, King Edouard III and his son will not hesitate to up the traditional rules of combat. It is first the Genoese archers of the King of France who draw their tiles. But if you think of the chronicle, a thunderstorm occurs, which relaxes the strings of the crossbows and they lose much of their efficiency. It's the turn of the Japanese archers to shoot. They took care to protect their arches in bags during the storm. From their line, they spray French troops. The English king and his knights, back, let them shoot endlessly and don't care about bothering them. The French knights, for their part, witness the powerlessness of Genoese archers, up them to mount themselves in the assault despite the muddy ground. They show themselves in no way for their own soldiers, that they do not hesitate to fight and kill!

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