Contemporaries considered Edward III of England 'the wisest and shrewdest warrior in the world'. He has not fared so well in the estimation of modern historians, many of whom have argued that he was a fine tactician but a poor strategist. Yet by 1360 the English, at the beginning of his reign considered 'inferior to the wretched Scots', had become the foremost martial nation of Europe. At Dupplin Moor, Halidon Hill, Crecy, and Poitiers their a...
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