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I've reverted a change from "battle" to "battalion". In modern parlance, a battalion has a very specific organizational meaning – a self-sustaining maneuver unit, typically consisting of a headquarters company and bunch of companies. When it's used merely as a sub-unit, denoting essentially any unit into with a regiment is split, in archaic battles, "battle" as a unit size is actually okay. Ari T. Benchaim (talk) 20:42, 3 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
Same thought occurred to me. The figures are cited, but are there any other sources? Could somebody speaking Spanish investigate the Spanish wikipedia article on this subject?1812ahill (talk) 10:18, 3 June 2011 (UTC)Reply
The Spanish article also cites 870 vs. 20-40,000 men, but 'only' 10,000 dead. Still seems highly unlikely though, especially given that this battle was part of attempt of the church to crush the Cathars in the south of France and that as a result of their ultimate defeat most information regarding the Cathars was written, not by them, but by their enemies. Sounds like classic propaganda, a case of 'look a sign of the lord: the heretics were utterly smited'.1812ahill (talk) 10:31, 3 June 2011 (UTC)Reply
