The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . aw in the French rear-guardsome Bretons or Gascons, who seemed about to turn backupon him. Fear seized him for a moment, especially whenhe saw his followers embarrassed with so great a number ofcaptives; and on the instant he gave orders that every manshould kill his prisoner. Not a man obeyed. These soldierswithout hose or shoes saw in their hands the greatest lords ofFrance, and thought their fortunes already made. Theywere ordered in fact to ruin themselves. Then the king toldoff two hundred men to serve as
The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . aw in the French rear-guardsome Bretons or Gascons, who seemed about to turn backupon him. Fear seized him for a moment, especially whenhe saw his followers embarrassed with so great a number ofcaptives; and on the instant he gave orders that every manshould kill his prisoner. Not a man obeyed. These soldierswithout hose or shoes saw in their hands the greatest lords ofFrance, and thought their fortunes already made. Theywere ordered in fact to ruin themselves. Then the king toldoff two hundred men to serve as butchers. It was an awfulsight, says the historian, to see these poor disarmed folk, towhom quarter had just been given, and who now in coldblood were killed, beheaded, cut in pieces! . . After all,the alarm was a false one. It was but some pillagers of theneighborhood, people of Agincourt, who in spite of their mas-ter, the Duke of Burgundy, had profited by the punished them severely, although they had drawn fromthe spoil a rich sword for his son.—J.
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