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... English word gunpowder occurred in 1386 . Gunpowder must have been fairly well known in Europe in 1346 when it was used by the English at the battle of Crécy , in which a French army of some sixty thousand under Philip VI of Valois ...
... English word gunpowder occurred in 1386 . Gunpowder must have been fairly well known in Europe in 1346 when it was used by the English at the battle of Crécy , in which a French army of some sixty thousand under Philip VI of Valois ...
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... English admiral , Robert Blake , in 1652 at the battle of Dungeness and then paraded triumphantly through the English Channel in token of his having made a clean sweep of the seas . This story , though in keeping with Tromp's character ...
... English admiral , Robert Blake , in 1652 at the battle of Dungeness and then paraded triumphantly through the English Channel in token of his having made a clean sweep of the seas . This story , though in keeping with Tromp's character ...
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... English bur- goo , or burgout as it is also spelled , meant a kind of thick gruel consisting of boiled oatmeal porridge seasoned with salt , sugar and butter and served on shipboard to the common seamen . Burgout in this sense occurred ...
... English bur- goo , or burgout as it is also spelled , meant a kind of thick gruel consisting of boiled oatmeal porridge seasoned with salt , sugar and butter and served on shipboard to the common seamen . Burgout in this sense occurred ...
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