Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page 247
... French , and it was felt that there would be no battle that day . But a little before four o'clock the trumpets sounded and every- one stood to arms . Coming out of the woods three miles to the south - east along the track still known ...
... French , and it was felt that there would be no battle that day . But a little before four o'clock the trumpets sounded and every- one stood to arms . Coming out of the woods three miles to the south - east along the track still known ...
Page 271
... French knights , who on Douglas's advice had cut down their twenty - foot lances to six foot , were unaccustomed to fighting without their horses and soon began to tire . In the end they , too , fell back in confusion . At this point ...
... French knights , who on Douglas's advice had cut down their twenty - foot lances to six foot , were unaccustomed to fighting without their horses and soon began to tire . In the end they , too , fell back in confusion . At this point ...
Page 280
... French envoys arrived in England they were told that the King was not prepared to abandon his title to the French crown until every detail of the treaty had been complied with . The envoys , therefore , refused to make a unilateral ...
... French envoys arrived in England they were told that the King was not prepared to abandon his title to the French crown until every detail of the treaty had been complied with . The envoys , therefore , refused to make a unilateral ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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