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History of the French Navy: From its Origins to the End...

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History of the French Navy: From its Origins to the End of the 19th Century

L20200105

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While works on the two most recent world wars abound and every aspect has been covered in exhaustive detail, it seemed important to us to republish Alfred Donéaud's work, which — without prejudging the considerable developments of the late 19th and 20th centuries — recounts with simplicity and precision the History of the French Navy from its origins to...

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HISTORY OF SHIPS IN ANCIENT CHINA - From the Origins to the 19th Century

L20200103

€26.54

Set out to discover an unexplored world. This book is a gateway to the fascinating world of ancient China. From prehistory to the mid-19th century, this voyage through the centuries, in the company of Professor Xi Longfei, will take you from wonder to wonder. This book will make you learn and dream: the epic of the Maritime Silk Road, the invention of...

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NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR

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THE NAVAL OPERATIONS OF THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR

L20200090

€23.70

Crécy, Poitiers, Agincourt… the history of the Hundred Years' War as it is taught is punctuated solely by great land battles, chevauchées across France, and sieges of towns and fortresses. Reading these accounts, one would never imagine that this long conflict was also a naval war — that squadrons clashed at sea, that numerous merchant vessels were sunk...

SANDWICH 24 August 1217 – England Escapes French Domination

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SANDWICH 24 August 1217 – England Escapes French Domination

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In 1217, Prince Louis of France (the future Louis VIII, son of Philip II Augustus and father of Saint Louis) was waging war in England in the hope of seizing the crown. The convoy bringing him vital reinforcements was intercepted at sea, somewhere between Dover, Sandwich and South Foreland, and never reached the English coast. This naval battle is...

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BRIGNAIS 6 April 1362 – The Tard-Venus at the Gates of Lyon

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BRIGNAIS 6 April 1362 – The Tard-Venus at the Gates of Lyon

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Southwest of Lyon, April 1362. Led by the Constable of France, Jacques de Bourbon, the French army marches on the small town of Brignais, occupied by bands of routiers. These soldiers, idle since the signing of the Treaty of Brétigny two years earlier, roam the roads and spread terror throughout the southern provinces of the kingdom of France. Although...

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VERNEUIL 17 August 1424 – The Scots to the Aid of France

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VERNEUIL 17 August 1424 – The Scots to the Rescue of France

L20200091

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August 1424. After an hour of fierce fighting, twelve thousand combatants lay strewn across the plain a few hundred metres from the small Norman town. The Lombard-Hispanic-Scots-French army, commanded by Archibald Douglas, newly created Duke of Touraine and in the service of Charles VII, had just suffered a terrible reverse at the hands of the English...