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Old 4th November 2017, 09:27 PM   #32
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... You are right though, to try to minimize such details as possible ...
A difficult task for an arms historian, so i see ...

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... The notion of blood soaking cloth falls into the myth and lore category so often rampant in weapons study, and along with 'blood gutters' in sword blades ...
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...If I may momentarily deviate to certain significance of a 'gory' circumstance lending itself to history and thereby, tradition. After this battle, there were many of these lances so encrusted with dried blood they were actually crimped. It became a custom of this unit to 'crimp' their pennons in honor of that battle...
Haven't you already narrated this chapter in post #41 of this thread

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