Tanotrooper Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 (edited) These are my entries for CCV: on the 11th July 1302 the battle of the Golden Spurs took place near Kortrijk in Flanders. This day is also the Flemish holiday. The Flemish were sick of the French demanding more and more of them and started rebelling against them. The French king was mad and sent a big organised army to those Flemish unorganised farmers. But the Flemish were smart, and defended the area behind a small river that flood around Kortrijk. The french army consisted of footsoldiers, archers, and a 5000-man knight army. The Flemish forces existed of militia, farmers, some noblemen who remained with the Flemish and laborers. The French first attacked with their footsoldiers and archers, pushing the Flemish forces back. The knights, who wanted their glory, ordered them to pull back, so that they could get their victory. A glorious charge of heavy cavalry took place, but the Flemish stood ready with their long "goedendagen". The cavalry got stuck in the sticky, muddy banks of the river, when the Flemish slaughtered them from above. No single knight was spared. The golden spurs of the knights were collected, and because so much spurs were collected, the battle was named "the battle of the Gulden Spurs" (de Guldensporenslag). From now on Flanders was independant. on to the pics! http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=292624 gallery when public deeplinks: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tanotroo...battle/gss1.jpg just when the battle seemed lost, the Golden knight appeared and encouraged the men to fight: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tanotroo...battle/gss5.jpg the figs: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tanotroo.../gssfigures.jpg from l to r: Flemish militia, templar, French knights, Flemish laborer, an important Flemish leader (can't identify him yet), Flemish knight, French soldier, French head, the Golden knight (Guy of Dampierre), Guy of Namur. here is the begin scene of the movie made of it (had problems with computer, so this is the only scene I can show now): my second entry: the Crown knights found an old unfished Roman bridge, and decided to fix it up: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tanotroo...ridgebefore.jpg this is the result: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tanotroo...tercontest1.jpg a shot through the doors: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tanotroo...tercontest2.jpg the doors closed: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tanotroo...ridgeafter3.jpg gallery: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=292627 the curved bridge surface is made of 1*2 bricks. A happy 2008 BTW *sweet* TT Edited January 4, 2008 by Tanotrooper Quote
Wout Posted January 3, 2008 Posted January 3, 2008 The Guldensporenslag looks great. *y* ;-) Guy of Dampierre looks good with the atst driverhelm on *y* Vlaanderen die Leeuw on! Quote
TheFrisian Posted January 3, 2008 Posted January 3, 2008 I think I saw a movie about that battle once (very long ago), it's nice to see a MOC of this historic event! *sweet* Quote
Tanotrooper Posted January 3, 2008 Author Posted January 3, 2008 I think I saw a movie about that battle once (very long ago), it's nice to see a MOC of this historic event! *sweet* could it be the same one as the one of wich I gave my youtube link? Indeed, Vlaanderen de Leeuw on! :-D TT Quote
Starwars4J Posted January 3, 2008 Posted January 3, 2008 Wouldn't it be easier to do a simple copy/paste of your post there? Quote
Tanotrooper Posted January 4, 2008 Author Posted January 4, 2008 Wouldn't it be easier to do a simple copy/paste of your post there? order completed sir :-D TT Quote
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