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I apologize in advance for nitpickery. And for being Spanish, though we get ours in about a century and a half. As for famed French knight Jean Le Maingre "Boucicaut", since the first C is followed by an I, it (I believe) makes the C soft. So I wonder if it isn't supposed to be pronounced boo-SEE-co. In Spanish, the defaultly-stressed syllable is the penultimate, but I'm not sure how French works (neither are the French, most likely, but that's a separate issue).
145 The Agincourt Campaign Part II
Henry probably now intended to be King of France or Duke of Normandy as a minimum. So what he planned was a war of conquest, not just the traditional chevaucee. It's likely that he planned to start with Harfleur, take it quickly and then advance to the capital of Normandy - Rouen - before winte...
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