"Drink your blood, Beaumanoir, and your thirst will pass!" So, says the chronicle, a comrade answered the wounded Breton leader who asked for water during the Combat of the Thirty in 1351.

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The event

• Combat of the Thirty1351 · Brittany. In the middle of the Hundred Years' War, the captains of two Breton castles agreed to settle their quarrel with a fight of 30 knights against 30, like a tournament. It lasted all day, with a break for rest and drink; the French side won.

14th century

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