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An English Military Revolution?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

M. J. Braddick
M. J. Braddick
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University of Sheffield
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The Historical Journal , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , December 1993 , pp. 965 - 975
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