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Charles the Great
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Discretion and Conditions Over Raw Courage, Restore the Footman to Break the Horseman, Combined Arms Over Single-Arm Dominance
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When the kingdom of Charles the Great was broken up and the local counts began to acquire a semi-independence, feudalism arose, and horsemen acquired still greater importance. They had their merits. It was they who kept…
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"When the kingdom of Charles the Great was broken up and the local counts began to acquire a semi-independence, feudalism arose, and horsemen acquired still greater importance. They had their merits. It was they who kept back the vast inroads of that era from north, east and south. Without them Christendom might have been overrun; no wonder the knight in armor won the regard of the whole earth."
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Discretion and Conditions Over Raw CourageRestore the Footman to Break the HorsemanCombined Arms Over Single-Arm DominanceDiscipline Over Feudal LoyaltyMethod Where Others Had NoneMercenary Loyalty Expires With PayBarbarian Replacement Destroys InstitutionsDefensive Tools Signal DeclineCavalry Supremacy as Civilizational Trap