The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . erself up in a fort, which Charlesbesieged. At the head of her Bretons she sallied forthand drove him back time and again, but still he kept aclose siege. Jeannes provisions became low, her fighting-men grew discouraged, but her own intrepid soul neverquailed. She told her soldiers that, sooner or later, theEnglish would come to her relief. And sure enough, justas despair was settling on the garrison, the lookout on thetopmost tower saw the banner of Walter Manny waving inthe dista
The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . erself up in a fort, which Charlesbesieged. At the head of her Bretons she sallied forthand drove him back time and again, but still he kept aclose siege. Jeannes provisions became low, her fighting-men grew discouraged, but her own intrepid soul neverquailed. She told her soldiers that, sooner or later, theEnglish would come to her relief. And sure enough, justas despair was settling on the garrison, the lookout on thetopmost tower saw the banner of Walter Manny waving inthe distant sunlight and creeping and creeping nearer andnearer over the plain, until he and his knights rode upfuriously and cut their way through the besiegers linesinto the castle. Beautiful and brave Jeanne of Montfordcame down to meet them, leading her little son by thehand, and kissed every man of them. Both the King of England and the King of France mustthen have felt that it was time to fight it out betweenthem. The two armies met at a place called Creci, inPicardy. The English king had about thirty-two thou-. ASSAULT ON A WALLED TOWN sand men, of whom eighteen thousand were Welsh andIrish—barefoot, ignorant, half savage, and armed with pikeand knife. He had no cavalry, but he had a body of Eng-lish archers, and, what was far better, a body of gunnerswith cannon—which for the first time in history werethen used in battle. Th^ French had more men, but of 122 [1328-1350 these many were hired Genoese archers, who, on the excusethat their bowstrings were wet, took but little part in thebattle, and ran away as soon as they could. Among therest were the flower of the chivalry of France—princes,dukes, counts, barons, and knights—with their men-at-arms, all heavily encumbered with steel armor. TheFrench had plenty of cavalry, but no artillery. Under the shower of English arrows, which fell likesnow, the French nobles went down, horses and men to-gether ; where they fell they lay
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