The Battle of The Spurs
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The battle of the Spurs is a battle between England and France. It took
place on 16 August 1513. The English were led by king Henry the eighth
and the French by Pierre terrail. Henry’s armies consisted of about
1,100 horseback and 11,000 foot soldiers whereas Pierre’s had around
8,000 horseback and an unknown amount of foot soldiers. A famous picture
is included by Georg Lemberger. The battle was eventually won by Henry
and his army. It is rumoured that it got it’s name because the french
were so hasty to leave that they left their spurs behind. ## Characters
in the game level

+----------+-----------------+-----------------+----------------------+
| Name     | Game Avatar     | Original        | Notes                |
+==========+=================+=================+======================+
| Henry    | |Beau’s Henry   | |Henry VIII|    | King Henry led his   |
| VIII     | VIII Avatar|    |                 | army into battle and |
| (Tudor)  |                 |                 | was married 6 times, |
|          |                 |                 | to Catherine Parr    |
|          |                 |                 | Catherine Howard,    |
|          |                 |                 | Anne of Cleves, Jane |
|          |                 |                 | Seymour, Anne Boleyn |
|          |                 |                 | and Catherine of     |
|          |                 |                 | Aragon.              |
+----------+-----------------+-----------------+----------------------+
| Pierre   | |Beau’s Pierre  | |Pierre         | Pierre Terrail,      |
| Terrail  | Terrail Avatar| | Terrail,        | seigneur de Bayard,  |
|          |                 | seigneur de     | one of the French    |
|          |                 | Bayard|         | commanders in the    |
|          |                 |                 | battle               |
+----------+-----------------+-----------------+----------------------+
| English  | |English        | |Horse picture| | Henry had 1,100      |
| cavalry  | cavalry avatar| |                 | cavalry. Horse       |
|          |                 |                 | picture is           |
|          |                 |                 | inspiration for my   |
|          |                 |                 | cavalry avatar       |
+----------+-----------------+-----------------+----------------------+
| French   | |Spanish        | |Horse picture| | The number of French |
| cavalry  | cavalry avatar| |                 | cavalry is unknown   |
+----------+-----------------+-----------------+----------------------+
| English  | |English arrow  |                 | The English had      |
| Arrow    | avatar|         |                 | archers among their  |
|          |                 |                 | 11,000 infantry.     |
+----------+-----------------+-----------------+----------------------+
| French   | |French lance   |                 | The French cavalry   |
| Lance    | avatar|         |                 | had lances that they |
|          |                 |                 | used in battle for   |
|          |                 |                 | ranged and close     |
|          |                 |                 | combat.              |
+----------+-----------------+-----------------+----------------------+
| Ba       | |Georg          | |Original       | The painting of the  |
| ckground | Lemberger       | painting|       | battle by Georg      |
|          | painting used   |                 | Lemberger. It is     |
|          | as background|  |                 | faded here to make a |
|          |                 |                 | background for the   |
|          |                 |                 | game                 |
+----------+-----------------+-----------------+----------------------+
| Music    |                 |                 | The song in the      |
|          |                 |                 | battle of the spurs  |
|          |                 |                 | level is called      |
|          |                 |                 | greensleeves. It is  |
|          |                 |                 | rumoured to have     |
|          |                 |                 | been written by      |
|          |                 |                 | Henry VIII for his   |
|          |                 |                 | future love, Anne    |
|          |                 |                 | Boleyn, who          |
|          |                 |                 | eventually gained    |
|          |                 |                 | the nickname         |
|          |                 |                 | “greensleeves”.      |
+----------+-----------------+-----------------+----------------------+

.. |Beau’s Henry VIII Avatar| image:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UCL-EO/tudors/master/henry.gif
   :target: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UCL-EO/tudors/master/henry.gif
.. |Henry VIII| image:: http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/henry81540c.jpg
   :target: http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/tudor.htm
.. |Beau’s Pierre Terrail Avatar| image:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UCL-EO/tudors/master/pierre.gif
   :target: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UCL-EO/tudors/master/pierre.gif
.. |Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard| image:: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Pierre_Terrail_de_Bayard.jpg
   :target: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Terrail,_seigneur_de_Bayard
.. |English cavalry avatar| image:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UCL-EO/tudors/master/rhorse_1.gif
   :target: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UCL-EO/tudors/master/rhorse_1.gif
.. |Horse picture| image:: https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/bay-stallion-free-run-fast-desert-dust-horse-galloping-sand-184357183.jpg
   :target: https://www.dreamstime.com/bay-stallion-free-run-fast-desert-dust-horse-galloping-sand-image184357183
.. |Spanish cavalry avatar| image:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UCL-EO/tudors/master/horse_1.gif
   :target: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UCL-EO/tudors/master/rhorse_1.gif
.. |English arrow avatar| image:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UCL-EO/tudors/master/arrow.gif
   :target: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UCL-EO/tudors/master/arrow.gif
.. |French lance avatar| image:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UCL-EO/tudors/master/back_arrow.gif
   :target: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UCL-EO/tudors/master/back_arrow.gif
.. |Georg Lemberger painting used as background| image:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UCL-EO/tudors/master/background.gif
   :target: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UCL-EO/tudors/master/background.gif
.. |Original painting| image:: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Georg_Lemberger%2C_Battle_of_Guinegate_%281513%29%2C_Triumphzug_Kaiser_Maximilians.jpg
   :target: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Spurs