This week, we’re finally there, finally to that glorious battle depicted on the walls of the Gallery of Battles: the Battle of Poitiers. To begin this week, the opening story brings us from the build-up noted in last week's episode and delivers us at the beginning of the battle. We note numerous factors that played into the event, and almost all of them play on the military intelligence that the commanders of both units were able to bring to bear, the morale of their soldiers, and ultimately, the goals each commander had as he entered into the fight.
Two would enter, one would leave...
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Listenable: History of the Merovingians, 451-613
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