The burghers of Lucern were rich but, in those days, the chasm between the rich and the poor was enormous. |
At the Battle of Courtrai in 1302, the French army was disastrously defeated by Flemish burghers. |
It is strange that brothel-scenes were so popular among the God-fearing Dutch burghers. |
The burghers of the town had been caught napping during the committee stages of the Bill. |
In 1380 he helped to quell a revolt by the Flemish burghers against the count, which ended in 1382 with the massacre of 26,000 Flemings. |
But why, you may ask, has this apparently trivial factoid ruffled the feathers of the good burghers of Oslo? |