A social and economic system under the feudal system, whereby peasants owed their lord labour, theoretically in return for protection.
Serfdom
Fact of the Day
After the Battle of Val-es-Dunes in 1047, the river became so clogged with bodies that mills downriver came to a standstill.
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~ Thomas Jefferson
On This Day
1940 Winston Churchill orders the evacuation of the BEF from Dunkirk. Operation Dynamo begins.