Hello everyone, welcome back to the History of England, episode 144, the Aging Core campaign,

episode 1. Do you know it's a funny thing? When I was a lad, formed by a liberal but abnormally

patriotic father, I had no problem with the popularity of Aging Core with the English.

After all, I was a lad. I had no thought for how miserable it must have been for the soldiers,

pulling their way across France, all for the sake of their King's dynastic ambitions.

No thought of the agonies of dying in the mud, crushed by the weight of the bodies of your comrades,

and the slow death from an arrow in the gut. It was all about the ladybird images,

the glory and triumph of the English over the Paphidius and Horty French.

Now I'm a bit older, I can take a more mature view.

Not that I'm going to do that, of course. After all, I mean a victory over the French is a

victory over the French after all. In fact, I need instead to talk to you about incontinence.

It's an unpleasant word, ladies and gentlemen, and I use it with the greatest reluctance

and under the most extreme of circumstances. But I have to admit, to having completely

lost control of any writing discipline I might have had. So we are in fact going to have three

episodes on the Aging Core campaign, yes, three episodes on the Aging Core campaign.

One for set up, which is today? One for the campaign, and one for the battle itself. What can I say?

Sorry, seems to be the hardest word. Sadly, I inherited my father's by now deeply unfashionable outlook.

So seriously, why is Aging Core on the lips of every Englishman,

where Cressy and Poitier, Victorus, every bit as glorious and unlikely, are not? Why the focus

on this one battle as the crowning achievement of English arms?

After all, despite Anne Carr is attempt to argue that it was a strategic and decisive event in

the role of history in their scheme of things, it really wasn't. Within ten years, the English

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