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American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines carried whiskey at Yorktown, Gettysburg, Manila, and Da Nang. It bolster. They were also home to the largest standing force under the command of the English crown. This book examines the nature of military service in Calais, the recruitment of soldiers, their weaponry, the financial problems that the defence of the Pale caused successive English regimes, and the role of chivalry and notions of professionalism in defining military identity.
It also examines in detail the unsuccessful Burgundian siege of and the capture of Calais by the French in Warfare in History ISSN βX Series editor Matthew Bennett, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst This series aims to provide a wide-ranging and scholarly approach to military history, offering both individual studies of topics or wars, and volumes giving a selection of contemporary and later accounts of particular battles; its scope ranges from the early medieval to the early modern period.
New proposals for the series are welcomed; they should be sent to the publisher at the address below. During this time debts of gratitude have been incurred to many people. Hannes Kleineke, Tim Hochstrasser and Cath Nall have all read various chapters and the book is better for their comments. Steven Gunn and Michael K. Jones have shared references and ideas, as well as read and commented on almost the entire text.
I am grateful for their encouragement, support and friendship for more than ten years. An enormous debt is due to Linda Clark, who carefully read the entire manuscript, saving me from many errors, both typographical and factual. Any that remain are entirely my own. The book is dedicated, however, to my parents who fostered and encouraged my love of history from a very early age. Brewer et al. Matthew and B. Sir N. Chris Given-Wilson et al.
