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LinkedIn.com slash solutions. That's LinkedIn.com slash solutions. It's July 1302. A gentle breeze stirs the smell of water and mud into the air. In the cool shadow of the walled city

of Koldtrich a large group of men waits anxiously. Their ordinary craftsmen, hands calloused, and fingers died from the textiles that earn them their living.

But today, they're rebels, and instead of combs and wool, they're holding spears and spiked clubs.

The men look across the field at the hundreds of French cavalry

readying for war.

Their banners bright, their male shining.

Soon, this colorful mass of iron and steel will charge head long in their direction.

The French commander, Robert of Artois, studies the field too.

When we last met Robert, he had just successfully ambushed the English in Gascony.

Now he's been called to Flanders to put an end to the rebellion here, but this is a much more daunting task.

The Flemings have arranged themselves between the city wall and a natural stream that curves around and behind their position.

There's only one way to get at them, and the rebels have dug ditches across it to slow the French horses. The ditches are covered with brush in a vague attempt at disguise, but Robert can tell what

he's looking at.

A frontal assault will be tricky.

Then there's the stream.

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