The speech Simon reportedly addressed to the troops before Lewes is full of religious hyperbole, with little indication of the oratory […]
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Victory for the common enterprise
14 May 1264 For all the savagery of the civil war, the strategy was about chipping away at the enemy’s […]
The road to Lewes
1264 As usual, the initial fighting broke out in the west. Henry de Montfort scored an early triumph by bottling […]
Unmindful of his own honour
January 1264 A truce was to be observed during the course of arbitration. Henry being Henry, he ordered Roger Mortimer, […]