Battle of the Golden Spurs

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Kanuni i Lek Dukagjinit

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Flemish weavers and craftsmen annihilated France's armored knights at Courtrai in 1302, then stripped the battlefield and hung 700 gold spurs from the church ceiling as trophies. The dead included the cream of French nobility. What do you call it when tradesmen kill a caste?

Cyrus the Younger paid 10,000 Greek soldiers to march 1,500 miles to overthrow his brother Artaxerxes II — then personally charged the royal bodyguard, took a javelin to the eye socket, and died instantly.

On September 16, 1992 — 'Black Wednesday' — George Soros shorted $10 billion in British pounds and pocketed $1 billion before London's close. The Bank of England spent $27 billion defending sterling and lost.

A 1950 letter signed by U.S. Ambassador John Muccio authorized American soldiers to fire on Korean civilian refugees approaching front lines. The paper trail survived. An ally's civilians, cleared for killing by a diplomat's signature.

The Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini sets a precise cash tariff for murder, specifies which rooms of a house grant sanctuary, and has been cited in Albanian court defenses as recently as the 1990s.

Voltaire scrawled 'absurd' across his personal Bible hundreds of times, then predicted Christianity would be extinct within a century. His Geneva house became a Bible Society depot 50 years after his death.

Murdered by his own secretaries after single-handedly stitching Rome's three fractured pieces back together in five years. The man who saved the empire couldn't survive his own staff.

Mookie Wilson's routine grounder rolled through Bill Buckner's legs in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, scoring Ray Knight and handing the Mets a win. Boston had been one out from their first title since 1918.

SOE agents slipped into Spanish-controlled Fernando Poo, chloroformed harbour watchmen, threw grappling irons onto three Axis ships, and towed them into international waters — a neutral nation's port robbed without a shot fired.