J.F. Verbruggen lectured at the Royal Military School in Brussels, and then taught in Africa, retiring as Professor of History, University of Congo, and University of Bujumbura (Burundi). He is also the author of The Art of Warfare in Western Europe. Originally published in Dutch in 1954, translated and updated.

A classic of military history, enduring as the indispensable study of the battle and the foundation of all subsequent scholarship. JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY This is battle history done at its best. Verbruggen has a talent for reconstructing not simply the course of events from contradictory testimonies, but something of what the experience may have been like for the participants. MEDIEVAL REVIEW A model for the writing of a battle account... what distinguishes this book is the way in which Verbruggen married his knowledge of the sources to his understanding of the terrain.

• Historiography and the study of the sources; historical overview of the 1302 campaign.

J.F. Verbruggen lectured at the Royal Military School in Brussels, and then taught in Africa, retiring as Professor of History, University of Congo, and University of Bujumbura (Burundi). He is also the author of The Art of Warfare in Western Europe. Originally published in Dutch in 1954, translated and updated.

A classic of military history, enduring as the indispensable study of the battle and the foundation of all subsequent scholarship. JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY This is battle history done at its best. Verbruggen has a talent for reconstructing not simply the course of events from contradictory testimonies, but something of what the experience may have been like for the participants. MEDIEVAL REVIEW A model for the writing of a battle account... what distinguishes this book is the way in which Verbruggen married his knowledge of the sources to his understanding of the terrain.

• Historiography and the study of the sources; historical overview of the 1302 campaign.

J.F. Verbruggen lectured at the Royal Military School in Brussels, and then taught in Africa, retiring as Professor of History, University of Congo, and University of Bujumbura (Burundi). He is also the author of The Art of Warfare in Western Europe. Originally published in Dutch in 1954, translated and updated.

A classic of military history, enduring as the indispensable study of the battle and the foundation of all subsequent scholarship. JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY This is battle history done at its best. Verbruggen has a talent for reconstructing not simply the course of events from contradictory testimonies, but something of what the experience may have been like for the participants. MEDIEVAL REVIEW A model for the writing of a battle account... what distinguishes this book is the way in which Verbruggen married his knowledge of the sources to his understanding of the terrain.

• Historiography and the study of the sources; historical overview of the 1302 campaign.