Battle of Pontvallain Edward III's mistress Alice Perrers. Knolles' campaign has been estimated to have cost Edward III somewhere in the region of £66,667 (), based on his known requests for loans. But the chevauchée that preceded the battle yielded, it has been said, "plunder but little military benefit," while Maurice Keen noted that even though Knolles had reached the gates of Paris, "he had little to show for it when he reached Brittany." and illustrated how much the Hundred Years' War had changed in character by now. According to Christopher Allmand, "the days of Crécy and Poitiers were over." Pontvallain "destroyed the
Alice Ross-King Alice Ross-King Alice Ross Appleford, (née Ross-King; 5 August 1887 – 19 August 1968) was an Australian civilian and military nurse who took part in both World Wars. She has been described as Australia's most decorated woman. During the First World War she served in hospitals in Egypt and France and was one of only seven Australian nurses decorated with the Military Medal for gallantry. In the Second World War she held a senior post within the Australian Army Medical Women's Service. In 1949 she was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest award made by the International Committee of