Скачать или смотреть The Day Foot Soldiers Humiliated French Cavalry: Golden Spurs 1302 Explained

In this longform investigative documentary, we reopen the Battle of the Golden Spurs—also known as the Battle of Courtrai (1302)—when Flemish infantry and militia forces faced the elite mounted knights of France and delivered a shockingly decisive defeat. How did foot soldiers—often dismissed as “peasants”—break cavalry that seemed unstoppable? We reconstruct the battle as a case file: the political crisis in Flanders, the French advance, and the choice of ground near Courtrai. Then we map the killing zone—ditches, soft ground, tight approaches—and explain how disciplined infantry formations, pikes and goedendags, and coordinated missile fire punished cavalry momentum. Step by step, we follow the moment the charge stalls, ranks collapse, and knights fall into a crushing bottleneck where armor becomes a liability. We also examine what medieval sources claim about numbers and trophies, and why the “golden spurs” became a symbol far beyond one battlefield. Calm narration, clear timeline, evidence-first analysis.

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