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20×102mm Vulcan
Europe’s Big Bang: How Gunpowder Transformed the Medieval World
https://quillette.com/author/paul-lockhart/Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy, was a warrior’s warrior. Hawk-nosed, ambitious, and brash, Philip had been a soldier since childhood. He was still a smooth-faced boy of 14 when he fought alongside his father, King John II of France, in the battle of Poitiers in 1356. Like King John, he was taken prisoner by the English when Edward, the Black Prince of Wales, vanquished the French on the field at Poitiers. A decade later, the duke, always looking for an advantage over the Englishmen who had invaded his country, embraced a novel technology: gunpowder.
Europe’s Big Bang: How Gunpowder Transformed the Medieval World
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