The History of England: From the Earliest Period to the Death of ..., volume 5
The History of England: From the Earliest Period to the Death of ..., volume 5
Sharon Turner
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** The dialogue on this occasion pourtrays the differettt characters i Vol. II. U Digitized by LjOOQIC 290 HISTORY OF ENOI.AND, BOOK joyously to Lisbon, and entered it amid the rapturous' ^^- gratulations of his delighted people. A truce of eight months terminated all immediate hostilities with mor- tified Castile,*' and the grand master of St. James was sent with tidings of the great success to England.'^ The duke of Lancaster now set forward upon his Spanish expedition : his little army of kn...ights, squires, men at arms and archers, embarked in 200 vessels ; and sailed in May for Portugal, as the truce was expiring." They landed at Brest in their way, and drove away the French, who were blockading it,*' and arrived five days afterwards at Corunna.*' The duke, disembarking there, dismissed his vessels with liberal remuneration, and expressed his resolution to succeed in his great enterprize, or perish." Altho bold and ambitious, he was not a very expe* ditious warrior. He passed a month in pleasurable * The Englisby seeing the enemy turn their backs, called aloud to the king of Portugal, ' Sir kmgl let us mount our horses, and set on the pursuit; and all these muaways shall be dead men.' * I will not,' replied tne kin^ ; ' what we have done ought to satbfy us.
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