History of Mediaeval And of Modern Civilization to the End of the Seventeenth Ce
History of Mediaeval And of Modern Civilization to the End of the Seventeenth Ce
Seignobos Charles
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THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES 197 to their rank, and divided them into bands, each under the orders of a chief. When fighting became constant the princes preferred to treat with the captain, who was himself charged with choosing his companions. The captain took the men that he Wanted, poor gentlemen, younger sons of a family, adventurers from every country, nobles or bourgeois. Du Guesclin, being as yet nothing but a poor squire, began his career by scouring the country at the head of a band of Br...eton lads. The company fought for whoever would pay for it, passing from one camp to another in case of need, and often when the prince ceased to pay con- tinued to make war on its own account. Battles were rare; usually the company lodged in a chateau or in a fortified village, went about the country besieging the chateaux of the enemy and taking prisoners for the purpose of getting a ransom, or to put the towns under contribution with threats to burn if these demands were not satisfied, or to carry off the cattle and furni- ture of the peasants.
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