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The Day the Sea Ran Red: The Battle of Sluys

Battle of Sluys

One of the great sea battles of the Hundred Years War pitted a massive French fleet against a much smaller English one—and changed the course of war. An excerpt from Dan Jones’s engaging new history, The Plantagenets.

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