The Combat Of The Thirty is a historical novel written by William Harrison Ainsworth in 1859. The story is based on a true event that took place in the fourteenth century, known as the Combat of the Thirty. The novel is set in Brittany, France, and follows the story of a group of knights who engage in a combat to settle a dispute between two rival factions.The novel is written in the form of a Breton lay, which is a type of narrative poem that was...