The Battle of the Golden Spurs

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🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The Battle of the Golden Spurs (Flemish: Guldensporenslag; French: Bataille des éperons d'or) was a military confrontation between the royal army of France and rebellious forces of the County of Flanders on 11 July 1302 during the Franco-Flemish War (1297–1305). It took place near the town of Kortrijk (Courtrai) in modern-day Belgium and resulted in an unexpected victory for the Flemish. It is sometimes referred to as the Battle of Courtrai.

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0:00.0	Okay, but at the end does his brain go to hell? Is that what we're supposed to be seeing there?
0:09.3	I don't know, man, maybe. I just don't understand why they can't make any good movies.
0:15.6	Well, howdy there, gentlemen. Come on in and set a while. Nice, cowboy shenanigans love it.
0:24.0	I will have one whiskey please. Sure things are, but that will be a penny. Nice. Here you go.
0:31.4	Eli, what's up with the post saloon?
0:34.5	Shing. I don't know who Eli is, but I'm Elijah Bucsum Bixby.
0:39.6	And I prepared this here saloon for your episode about the battle of the Golden Spurs.
0:46.2	Mmm. Dude, dude, this is just chew polished water.
0:52.0	I'm a per penny. Yeah. Okay, that's fair. That's fair.
0:56.2	Hit me again. Hit me again. Alright. I appreciate you going all out with the pre-episode
1:02.0	shenanigans and everything, but the battle of the Golden Spurs isn't about cowboys.
1:08.4	It's not? No. No, it's about the final stand of the Flemish infantry. I guess, to far more
1:14.2	armed and trained French army. And Flemish people are from... Belgium, modern day Belgium.
1:23.7	Okay. See? Sorry, sir. I'm going to have to take this. It's my drink. No, don't worry.
1:32.5	I replace it with these. What? No, okay. Awesome. Awesome. Yeah. That is the Belgian way.
1:39.5	Love it. Wait, is that chew polish and cheese? You bet you're sworkin' whoselites.
1:46.3	Is that a real Belgian word? I don't know that it's not. Okay.
2:11.6	Hello and welcome to Citation Needed. Podcasts are we choose a subject, read a single article
2:16.4	about it on Wikipedia and pretend we're experts because this is the internet. That's how it
2:20.7	works now. I'm Cecil and I'll be tending bar tonight. And I'm joined by the regulars and
2:25.3	lifers in this little dive bar. First up, the guy that asks if mango nectar is held slightly
2:29.9	above body temperature and the fellow that wants you to skip the carbonated water and takes
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