“We must consider how very little history there is. I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true; but all the colouring, all the philosophy, of history is conjecture.”

Samuel Johnson

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True, but even those sometimes are distorted. On one hand many battles long sung (such as Poitiers) were probably a little more than a skirmish and other great fights from forgotten cultures rests unknown to most buries under the sands of time.