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List of contents
Table of Maps, Plans, and Illustrations; Plate XVII; Book 7: Arms, Fortification, and Siegecraft (1100-1300) 1. Arms and Armour (100-1300) 2. Fortification (1100-1300) 3. Siegecraft (1100-1300) Book 8: England, Wales, and Scotland (1296-1333) - Development of the Longbow 4. Edward I and His Welsh Wars (1277-1295) - Development of the Longbow 5. England and Scotland (1296-1328) Falkirk and Bannockburn 6. Continuation of the Scottish War: First Combination of Archery and Dismounted Cavalry – Dupplin and Halidon Hall Book 9: The Longbow in France and Spain (1337-1396) 7. Commencement of the Hundred Years’ War: The Armies of Edward III 8. The Longbow in France – Crecy 9. From Crecy to Poictiers (1346-1356) 10. Poictiers, September 19, 1356 11. Navarette to Aljubarotta 12. France and England (1369-96) – Failure of the Policy of Edward III Book 10: Gunpowder and Cannon (1250-1450) 13. The Invention of Gunpowder and Cannon 14. Cannon in the Wars of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Book 11: The Swiss 15. Origins of the Swiss Infantry – Morgarten, Laupen, Sempach 16. Character, Arms, and Organisation of The Swiss Armies (1315-1515) 17. The Swiss Battles of the Fifteenth Century 18. Causes of the Decline of Swiss Ascendancy Book 12: Italy in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries – The Condottieri 19. Italy in the Fourteenth Century 20. Italy in the Fifteenth Century Book 13: Eastern Europe and the Near East 21. Eastern Europe and the Tartars 22. South-Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Turks (1300-1500) 23. Eastern Europe and the Hussites (1420-1440) Book 14: Western Europe in the Fifteenth Century 24. France and England (1400-1422) – Agincourt 25. The Expulsion of the English from France – Orleans, Formigny, Castillon (1422-1453) 26. The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) 27. Conclusion; Chronological Table of Battles; Index
About the author
Charles Oman
Summary
First published in 1898, this second volume charts the history of medieval warfare from 1278 to 1485.
