Medieval UK Battle Records Released Online 178
eldavojohn writes "Do you have ancestors who served in the British military under Henry V or fought in the Hundred Years War? Look them up online now that 250,000 medieval battle records are online and available for searching. According to the project details (PDF): 'The main campaigns of the period were to France but there were others to Flanders, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Wales and Scotland, a much wider geographical spectrum than before 1369. In addition, garrisons were maintained within England (such as that held at the Tower of London), the Channel Islands, Wales and the marches, as well as at Calais and in Gascony. In the fourteenth-century phase of the Hundred Years War, the English also held some garrisons in areas of northern France, and in the fifteenth century phase, there was a systematic garrison-based occupation of Normandy and surrounding regions...'"
Freedom!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Stupid and short sighted (Score:5, Funny)
Terrorists could exploit this knowledge to close the trebuchet gap.
Re:Surely this viloates EU privacy laws? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stupid and short sighted (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Man... (Score:5, Funny)
yeah it is pretty cool but it's not worth carrying an umbrella all the time.
I always suspected (Score:5, Funny)
that a family member had served in the military back in the day.
Signed,
John Arrowbait
Re:Man... (Score:3, Funny)
yeah it is pretty cool but it's not worth carrying an umbrella all the time.
We don't have to carry umbrellas all the time -- we've had roofs for, ooh, years now.
Re:Surely this viloates EU privacy laws? (Score:5, Funny)
"The reason the sun never sets on the British Empire is because God doesn't trust the British in the dark."
God knows about Lucas, the Prince Of Darkness.
Re:!newsfornerds is way wrong. (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot: News for Nerds, and also XPeter
Re:Lots of blokes called John (Score:1, Funny)
Don't hold your hopes out if you were dreaming to find your ancestor on some particular march out to France or Scotland. Not unless your ancestors happen to be the Dukes of Northumberland or the like...
My ancestors were Dukes of Northumberland you insensitive clod!
Wrong Side (Score:5, Funny)
>The main campaigns of the period were to France but there were others to ... Scotland
Sorry, but my ancestors were on the other side. Damn English. Well, they were good at raising cattle to steal.
Re:Lots of blokes called John (Score:1, Funny)
I am a descendant of John the archer you insensitive clod!
Well....there was this one... (Score:5, Funny)
"King of the who?" - "The Britons." - "Who are the Britons?" - "We all are. We're all Britons. And I am your king." - "Didn't know we had a king. I thought we're an autonomous collective."
"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying, by divine providence, that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king." - "Listen, strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses. Not from farcical aquatic ceremony."
Damn it!! (Score:4, Funny)
And here I thought we were going to get to hear some 15th century hip-hop!
Just as I suspected (Score:4, Funny)
Harry was right (Score:2, Funny)
Braveheart (Score:4, Funny)
Scotland was not a part of England at the time.
Re:Man... (Score:3, Funny)
" We don't have to carry umbrellas all the time -- we've had roofs for, ooh, years now."
Can central heating be far behind?
Re:Man... (Score:1, Funny)
yeah it is pretty cool but it's not worth carrying an umbrella all the time.
We wear hoodies nowadays .....
Re:Man... (Score:3, Funny)
I am British.
My ancestors didn't come over on a ship, because I came over on United, connecting through Chicago, in 1999.
Some time in the future, historians will put my travel records in a big online database along with the records of millions of others, for non historians to check out for a few minutes before forgetting about it.