A Handbook of English History Based On the Lectures of the Late M.J. Guest ...
A Handbook of English History Based On the Lectures of the Late M.J. Guest ...
Montague John Guest, Francis Henry Underwood
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Cven when his army was in most need he permitted nothing to be taken from the countiy people which was not paid for, thus treating them far better than their own cruel and selfish princes did. After five weeks Harfleur was taken, but during that time the English army had suffered so much from disease that it had dwindled down to a very small number. Henry, how- ever, did not choose to return to England after taking only one town ; he determined to march through Normandy and Picardy to Calais. H...e had to pass the river Somme, but on Digitized by Google THE CONQUEST OF FRANCE. 327 the other side of this river was the great French army, which tried to hinder his crossing. At last, however, the English got over, and the two armies confronted each other. The French army was quite six times as large as the Eng- lish, and it included great numbers of those proud and wicked princes and nobles who made their country so miser- able. The English found the country through which they marched was almost a desert, and before they met the enemy they were half starved and in a most wretched plight.
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