The Draughtsman’s Sketchbook Creed
Nov 7, 2013“My Sketchbook” The Creed of a Sketcher This is my sketchbook. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My sketchbook is my best friend. It is my...
Aljubarrota battlefield
Nov 4, 2013From the battlefield of Aljubarrota, visited years after it took place by the narrator, Fernão Lopes, royal chronicler, and his page, to the deathbed of Ferdinand I of Portugal in...
1383, Fernando I de portugal dies
Nov 3, 20131383, Fernando I de Portugal dies, and for the following years civil war will divide Portugal.
Longbow men contingent
Oct 28, 2013On Easter day, a contingent of about 600 longbow men, veterans of the Hundred Years’ War battles, and well schooled in efficient English military tactics, arrived to help Portugal in...
