14th August 1385 was not a good day to be a Castilian soldier, especially if you don't

looked it up; Castillians and the French vs Portugal over succession. Portugal was the weaker defending army positioned uphill with two creeks on either side creating a narrow channel for the Castillians to navigate, and capped their defenses with lines of archers whose arrows would converge on the same sections, covering what essentially was a killing field. the French cavalry charged without support and were slaughtered. the Castillians followed too late because of pride and petty differences, and didn’t have the buffer of the more heavily armored French, and were also slaughtered. and there’s a legend about a polydactyl baker woman who killed like a dozen Castillians with her bare hands when they tried hiding in her bakery, but that’s disputed.