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A historical novel by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle, set during the [[UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar Hundred Years' War]]. It mainly follows the adventures of Alleyne Edricson, who is squire to [[KnightInShiningArmor Sir Nigel Loring]], and two of his comrades: [[ArcherArchetype Samkin Aylward]] and [[TheBigGuy Hordle John]] as they travel across France to meet up with the eponymous [[PrivateMilitaryContractors White Company]]. Along the way, they have a quite a number of chance encounters, whereby much honor is gained through noble deeds and feats of arms.
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A historical novel by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle, set during the [[UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar Hundred Years' War]]. It mainly follows the adventures of Alleyne Edricson, who is squire to [[KnightInShiningArmor Sir Nigel Loring]], and two of his comrades: [[ArcherArchetype Samkin Aylward]] Aylward and [[TheBigGuy Hordle John]] as they travel across France to meet up with the eponymous [[PrivateMilitaryContractors White Company]]. Along the way, they have a quite a number of chance encounters, whereby much honor is gained through noble deeds and feats of arms.
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* OverlyGenerousFool: Sir Nigel's squire Alleyne is put in charge of his lord's purse by his wife. He doesn't understand why until he sees that Nigel is such a paragon of chivalry he'd cheerfully give their travel funds to beggars without a thought as to the rest of the trip. When Nigel tells him to give a beggar the purse, Alleyne discreetly gives the man a single coin so they can keep going.
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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: The Whtie Company archers rescue the heroes from a burning tower by sending them a long enough rope, having calculated the height via trigonometry.
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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: The Whtie White Company archers rescue the heroes from a burning tower by sending them a long enough rope, having calculated the height via trigonometry.
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* BaldOfAwesome: Sir Nigel. Also spends much of the book wearing an [[EyepatchOfPower eyepatch]] as part of a vow.
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* PowerTrio: Alleyne, Aylward, and Hordle John.
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* WithAFriendAndAStranger: Alleyne, Aylward, and Hordle John.
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* OutfitDecoy: While the heroes are trapped in a castle overrun by revolting peasants, one of them puts his helmet on the end of a pole and pokes it through a doorway to see whether it will be attacked. It is.
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It's not a spoiler that Alleyne's brother is the Socman of Minstead: "your elder brother, now Socman of Minstead" is literally the first mention of him.
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* CainAndAbel: Alleyne and his brother, [[spoiler: the Socman of Minstead.]]
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* CainAndAbel: Alleyne and his brother, [[spoiler: the Socman of Minstead.]]
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* CulturedBadass: The main reason Aylward wants Alleyne in the Company is that he can read and write in addition to being able to hold his own.
* CulturedBadass: The main reason Aylward wants Alleyne in the Company is that he can read and write in addition to being able to hold his own.
* TheLadysFavour:
** Sir Nigel carries one of his wife's gloves. [[BerserkButton It is not overly large.]]
** One of the other squires asks Lady Maude to take her veil as a sign of her favour, but she gives it to Alleyne instead.
** Sir Nigel carries one of his wife's gloves. [[BerserkButton It is not overly large.]]
** One of the other squires asks Lady Maude to take her veil as a sign of her favour, but she gives it to Alleyne instead.
* PowerTrio: Alleyne, Aylward, and Hordle John.
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* PowerTrio: Alleyne, Aylward, and Hordle John.
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* TheLadysFavour:
** Sir Nigel carries one of his wife's gloves. [[BerserkButton It is not overly large.]]
** One of the other squires asks Lady Maude to take her veil as a sign of her favour, but she gives it to Alleyne instead.
** Sir Nigel carries one of his wife's gloves. [[BerserkButton It is not overly large.]]
** One of the other squires asks Lady Maude to take her veil as a sign of her favour, but she gives it to Alleyne instead.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Lady Tiphaine predicts that France will one day regain its eastern coast (in the hands of the Plantagenets at the time), but also the rise of UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire.
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* ExternallyValidatedProphecy: Lady Tiphaine predicts that France will one day regain its eastern coast (in the hands of the Plantagenets at the time), but also the rise of UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire.
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* ActuallyThatsMyAssistant: When the company is being welcomed to a town by the mayor, who knows Sir Nigel only by reputation, the mayor overlooks the unprepossessing Sir Nigel and assumes that Black Simon, the captain of Sir Nigel's men-at-arms, is the famous knight.
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* BigEater: Sir Oliver Buttesthorne.
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* BigEater: Sir Oliver Buttesthorne.Buttesthorne is a large man who can't get through a single conversation without bringing it around somehow to food.
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* GratuitousFrench: Aylward, in particular injects French terms every other word.
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* GratuitousFrench: Aylward, in particular injects French terms every other word. He's a true Englishman himself, but spending most of his adult life fighting England's wars overseas has left its mark on his manner of speaking.
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* KleptomaniacHero: Aylward. His first appearance is at the head of six men carrying his assorted French plunder, including a feather-bed.
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* KleptomaniacHero: Aylward. His first appearance is at the head of six men carrying his assorted French plunder, including a feather-bed. Most of his anecdotes about past battles revolve around the valuables he picked up during or after them.
* MilesGloriosus: Francois Poursuivant d'Armour Pelligny, Champion of the Bishop of Montaubon, who boasts of his martial prowess but offers an increasingly strained series of excuses when John offers him an opportunity to put his money where his mouth is.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The peasant uprising against the oppressive lord of Villefranche. The rebels are depicted as brutal and out-of-control, murdering everyone they come across in the castle including a priest who earlier tried to help them despite the lord's disapproval
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* TheLadysFavour: Sir Nigel carries one of his wife's gloves. [[BerserkButton It is not overly large.]]
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* TheLadysFavour: TheLadysFavour:
** Sir Nigel carries one of his wife's gloves. [[BerserkButton It is not overly large.]]]]
** One of the other squires asks Lady Maude to take her veil as a sign of her favour, but she gives it to Alleyne instead.
** Sir Nigel carries one of his wife's gloves. [[BerserkButton It is not overly large.
** One of the other squires asks Lady Maude to take her veil as a sign of her favour, but she gives it to Alleyne instead.
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* WackyWaysideTribe: Several, particularly the pirates and the peasant uprising. Sir Nigel seems to enjoy these, and is always on the lookout for them. On a more meta level, the real reason why the book reads like a collection of random adventures is because this was originally a serialized publication.
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* WackyWaysideTribe: Several, particularly the pirates and the peasant uprising. Sir Nigel seems to enjoy these, and is always on the lookout for them. On a more meta level, the real reason why the book reads like a collection of random adventures is because this was originally a serialized publication.publication (and because the author wanted to [[ShownTheirWork show off the research he'd done]]).
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* BroadStrokes: there are some considerable discrepancies between ''White Company'' and ''Sir Nigel''; for one, there is no indication in the latter that Sir Nigel Loring and Samkin Aylward actually knew each other before.
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Some years later, Doyle wrote ''Sir Nigel'', recounting Sir Nigel Loring's youth and how he met Samkin.
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* HonorBeforeReason: Sir Nigel treads perilously close to this at times, although other characters (particularly the archers) take a more pragmatic approach.
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* HonorBeforeReason: HonorBeforeReason:
** Sir Nigel treads perilously close to this at times, although other characters (particularly the archers) take a more pragmaticapproach.approach.
** In ''Sir Nigel'', Nigel's superiors have to remind that they're at war, so could he please put the knight-errant attitude at rest for a while. Naturally, he doesn't, which helps save the day.
** Sir Nigel treads perilously close to this at times, although other characters (particularly the archers) take a more pragmatic
** In ''Sir Nigel'', Nigel's superiors have to remind that they're at war, so could he please put the knight-errant attitude at rest for a while. Naturally, he doesn't, which helps save the day.
* RuleOfThree: Nigel is allowed to marry only after accomplishing three feats. [[spoiler:Defeating an armed knight in single combat, taking a castle, and ''capturing the King of France'']] are deemed suitable enough.
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* TheTourney: complete with a BlackKnight [[spoiler:who turns out to be Bertrand du Guesclin]]
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* TheTourney: complete Complete with a BlackKnight [[spoiler:who turns out to be Bertrand du Guesclin]]
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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: The Whtie Company archers rescue the heroes from a burning tower by sending them a long enough rope, having calculated the height via trigonometry.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Nigel Loring is based on the historical Neil Loring, one of the original Knights of the Garter.
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* WorthyOpponent: Sir Nigel and [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Bertrand du Guesclin]]. Reaches EnemyMine levels when the two of them are trapped by the [[{{TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized}} Jacquerie.]]
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* WorthyOpponent: WorthyOpponent:
** Sir Nigel and [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Bertrand du Guesclin]]. Reaches EnemyMine levels when the two of them are trapped by the [[{{TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized}} Jacquerie.]]
** Sir Nigel and [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Bertrand du Guesclin]]. Reaches EnemyMine levels when the two of them are trapped by the [[{{TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized}} Jacquerie.]]
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* ChurchgoingVillain: One of the highwaymen begs for a boon before his execution, that he might be allowed to hold a sacred relic in his hands, and promises to intercede in favor of the bailiff once in heaven.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: All over the place. Aylward openly joins for the plundering opportunities, peasants are treated as less than scum by nobles, Nigel will happily fight against allied fellow knights for the slightest (or even imagined) insult...
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Lady Tiphaine predicts that France will one day regain its eastern coast (in the hands of the Plantagenets at the time), but also the rise of UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire.
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** Hordle John holds no ill-will towards the abbot who kicked him out of the Abbey of Beaulieu, deeming him the only man among all the monks.
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* GloryHound: Sir Nigel always, ''always'' refers to the enemy in terms of the advancement that fighting them can bring.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Zigzagged. On the one hand, Sir Nigel's wife spends their last ride before his departure making a full list of recommendations to Alleyne regarding the clothes her husband is to wear or the money he isn't to spend (and is proven right shortly after when he tells Alleyne to give his entire purse to a beggar), but on the other hand, he is perfectly capable of handling himself without her assistance, and of course woe betide anyone stupid enough to insult her appearance in earshot of her husband.
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* WouldNotHitAGirl: Sir Nigel's failing eyesight came from a siege where he took a bucket of lime to the face, thrown by a female defender. He could have killed her to defend himself, but to strike a woman is entirely beyond him.
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* CulturedBadass: The main reason Aylward wants Alleyne in the Company is that he can read and write.
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* CulturedBadass: The main reason Aylward wants Alleyne in the Company is that he can read and write.write in addition to being able to hold his own.
* HaveAGayOldTime: "Lusty" is used to describe many a character in situations having nothing to do with lust.
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** Lady Loring manages to fend off an siege by a rival lord, though Lady Tiphaine gives an account of how the battle is going.
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** Lady Loring manages to fend off an siege by a rival lord, though Lady Tiphaine gives an account of how the battle is going.going thanks to her second sight.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: After rescuing an old painter and his daughter carrying a window with the figure of a saint, Alleyne and Ford spend an entire conversation enraptured by the beauty they just saw, which is thrown off the tracks when Alleyne mentions a beard which the daughter assuredly did not have.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: After rescuing an old painter and his daughter carrying a window with the figure of a saint, Alleyne and Ford spend an entire conversation enraptured by the beauty they just saw, which is thrown off the tracks when Alleyne mentions a beard which the daughter assuredly did not have.
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* AccidentalInnuendo: Aylward to John: "Why, you have that which I covet above all things. It is that big body of thine that I am after." (That is, he wants to recruit John for the Company).
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* AssholeVictim: The lord and lady of Villefranche are splendid examples of {{Upper Class Twits}}: as far as they're concerned, the peasants are there to supply them with money. They end up mauled to death by those same peasants.
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* AssholeVictim: The lord and lady of Villefranche are splendid examples of {{Upper Class Twits}}: Twit}}s: as far as they're concerned, the peasants are there to supply them with money. They end up mauled to death by those same peasants.
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