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From: liz@unirot.UUCP (Mamaliz )
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Gordon Dickson's Childe Cycle
Message-ID: <256@unirot.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Dec-85 16:38:18 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 21 16:38:18 1985
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In article <750@lasspvax.UUCP> norman@lasspvax.UUCP (Norman Ramsey) writes:
>
>After finishing Childe (and also Chantry Guild?), DIckson plans to go back
>and do the three histrocial novels, first one about a fictional late Moyen
>Age/Early Renaissance warrior, Hawkwood, then one about Milton, and then one
>about I forget who.

Sir John Hawkwood is very definitely NOT a fictional character.  He
was an English soldier from the Hundred Years War, who at the
"conclusion" of the war went on to be the leader of a number of
mercenary bands in Northern Italy.

liz
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