Rules of war... interesting... I was reading a book about Henry 2 and Eleanor of Aquitaine... Thomas Becket... not long ago.
One of the primary reasons for Henry's creation of the largest empire since the Romans in the 1100s was the fact that he did not make war in the traditional manner.
Where his opponents were slow and deliberate in their actions and reactions, he was quick to horse and most often showed up on their doorsteps well before they'd even had time to grasp that he was coming.
Of course his undoing was the Becket disaster in the end, but his son John went right on doing things his own way for years and ruled.
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