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
The Mistress of the Copper Mountain kind and nature. She compares the character with Mephistopheles, because a human needs to wager his soul with her in order to get the ultimate knowledge, however, the Mistress does not force anyone to abandon their moral values, and therefore "is not painted in dark colours". Lyudmila Skorino believed that she represented the nature of the Urals, which inspires a creative person with its beauty. The Mistress of the Copper Mountain The Mistress of the Copper Mountain (), also known as The Malachite Maid, is a legendary creature from Slavic mythology and a Russian fairy tale character, the mountain spirit