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Updated: May 13, 2025
Facing the road is the following inscription: 'Dans cette plaine le 17 Juillet, 1453, fut remporte la victoire qui delivra du joug de l'Angleterre les provinces meridionals de la France et termina la guerre de cent ans. The abbey where the French archers were surprised and slain must have been near this spot, but it was down in the valley by the Lidoire where Talbot fell.
Since this was written I have asked Lieutenant-Colonel Playfair his opinion on this matter, and the subjoined is the reply: "In this Lieutenant Burton erred; and this was the termina causa of all the mishaps which befell the expedition.
On the 27th he was in front of the Porta Termina of Palermo, and at once gave the signal for the attack. The people rose in mass, and assisted the operations of the besiegers by barricade-fighting in the streets. In a few hours half the town was in Garibaldi's hands.
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