. The great battles of all nations from Marathon to Santiago, 490 1898. mm %m ^ MM mm. ■1MBBL, «vtaUm\*>«\\V \. sv\\uiM«M\ia(i III CHAPTER XII l CRESSY, POITIERS, AND AGINCOURT THE GREAT BATTLES WAGED BY ENGLAND AGAINST FRANCE A. D. 1346—1415 THOUGH in England the existence of a standing army iscomparatively modern, yet soldiers were there enrolled fortemporary service abroad under the feudal system from thetime of the Conquest. William the Conqueror had not long beenseated on the throne of England before he conveyed English troopsto the Continent to fight against the French king
. The great battles of all nations from Marathon to Santiago, 490 1898. mm %m ^ MM mm. ■1MBBL, «vtaUm\*>«\\V \. sv\\uiM«M\ia(i III CHAPTER XII l CRESSY, POITIERS, AND AGINCOURT THE GREAT BATTLES WAGED BY ENGLAND AGAINST FRANCE A. D. 1346—1415 THOUGH in England the existence of a standing army iscomparatively modern, yet soldiers were there enrolled fortemporary service abroad under the feudal system from thetime of the Conquest. William the Conqueror had not long beenseated on the throne of England before he conveyed English troopsto the Continent to fight against the French king, or his own rebel-lious subjects in Xormandy and Poitou. These soldiers gainedgreat commendation for their steadiness, fidelity and gallantry inthe field. The sons of the Conqueror made a still more frequentand extensive use of English troops. On one occasion, when Wil-liam II., surnamed Rufus, was under the necessity of proclaiminghis ban of war in the old Saxon form—Let every man that is nota man of nothing, whether he live in burgh or out of burgh, leavehis home and come—thirty
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