A Short Sketch of European History From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Re
A Short Sketch of European History From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Re
H E Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
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He made, however, little headway against the superior military genius of the English king, and it was not until the infamous John Lackland came to the throne of England that the French king's moment arrived. 1199 With the advent of John the struggle entered on a new phase, and the end could not long be doubtful. For on the one side there was an indolent, vicious king, barely tolerated by an alienated people. On the other there w r as an energetic, calculating soldier-statesman, with behind him ...a people in whom the sense of loyalty and of nationality was fast awakening. Every advantage that was his Philip used with vigour. One b}^ one he wrested his French possessions from the Eng- lish king, until there was nothing left to him except Gascony. John, overwhelmed with troubles at home, fighting his own barons, and casting defiance at the pope, let his French possessions slip from him. But when he saw them gone he desired to have them back again. So he made an alliance 1198- with Otto IV, emperor of Germany, and together they made ' an attack on France.
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