Battle Of The Spurs

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Battle Of The Spurs [1]

( a ) an engagement at Courtrai in 1302 where the burghers of the town beat the knighthood of France, and the spurs of 4000 knights were collected after the battle; ( b ) an engagement at Guinegate, 1513, in which Henry VIII. made the French forces take to their spurs;

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satire by Swift on a literary controversy of the time;

battle in 1138, in which the English, with a high-mounted crucifix for a standard, beat the Scots at Northallerton.

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