Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... reached England in safety . Riding day and night with Douglas in pursuit , he reached Dunbar castle where he took boat to Berwick . Other were less fortunate . The Constable , flying towards Car- lisle with the earl of Angus and other ...
... reached England in safety . Riding day and night with Douglas in pursuit , he reached Dunbar castle where he took boat to Berwick . Other were less fortunate . The Constable , flying towards Car- lisle with the earl of Angus and other ...
Page 243
... reached Lisieux . But on the same day the French King entered Rouen forty miles ahead , interposing his force between the English and their Flemish allies who , two hundred miles to the north , were just setting out from Ypres . As soon ...
... reached Lisieux . But on the same day the French King entered Rouen forty miles ahead , interposing his force between the English and their Flemish allies who , two hundred miles to the north , were just setting out from Ypres . As soon ...
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... reached the Bosphorus and Mediterranean the plague was raging among their crews , and every port at which they touched became infected . It struck so suddenly that at first no one had time to escape . The symptoms were a gangrenous in ...
... reached the Bosphorus and Mediterranean the plague was raging among their crews , and every port at which they touched became infected . It struck so suddenly that at first no one had time to escape . The symptoms were a gangrenous in ...
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