<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Jun 20, 2016, at 9:56 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Long before nuclear weapons, states having more armed men in the field lost battles and wars. That was never a guarantee of victory in battle or in wars. Often it lulled one side into thinking they would win or wouldn't be attacked because they had the larger numbers on their side. dan</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Just think of all the wars fought between France and England and today there is no territory in France that belongs to England and vice versa. What an enormous waste of men, materials and money. All for royal spite. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Yes, the Normans has a relatively small force. And the English at Crecy and Agincourt had the smaller force. It might have been better had the French in both battles had a smaller force. Might have made them set aside heroic views and just wait for the English to run out of supplies or nerve.<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">My Dad was in WWI - born 1997</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>He was a time traveler? ;)</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my latest Kindle book, "The Late Mr. Gurlitt," at:</span></div><a dir="ltr" href="http://mybook.to/Gurlitt" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://mybook.to/Gurlitt</font></a></div></div></div></body></html>