. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . s, had been settled by mere force of numbers. The French,on the other hand, had nothing to learn from the feudal bicker-ings of Armagnac and Buigundian against each other—save,indeed, the lesson of the campaign of 1411, when a small body ofEnglish auxiliary troops lent by Henrj- IV. to the Burgundians,Avon tlie battle of St. Cloud, and turned the fate of a wholecampaign. Two extensive military experiments m
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . s, had been settled by mere force of numbers. The French,on the other hand, had nothing to learn from the feudal bicker-ings of Armagnac and Buigundian against each other—save,indeed, the lesson of the campaign of 1411, when a small body ofEnglish auxiliary troops lent by Henrj- IV. to the Burgundians,Avon tlie battle of St. Cloud, and turned the fate of a wholecampaign. Two extensive military experiments made againstforeign enemies—Roosebeque and Nicopolis—had also not muchthat was instructive for the French. At the former the (hs-mounted knights of France and the pikemen of (ihcnt, bothfighting in massive cdluinns, had met cm equal terms, and themore heavil\- armed coluuni had ultimately trampled down and? crushed the lighter. At Nicojjulis the same tactics, tried againstthe liuht liorsc and (Hscijjlined infantry (Janissaries) of theTiuks, liad failc(l with fearful disaster the mass of armour-ladenknights Inning been exhausted after their first successful charges, m D > z. 14851 THE Airr (IF 439 and being unaMe to sustain a running fight witli successive relaysof foes who were individually their interiors. The only dittbrences which may be noted between the char- Armouractcr of the armies which fought at Agincourt and at Poitiers weapons,are comparatively sliglit. On both sides the men-at-arms werenow more heavily armed than in the previous centurv. The
Size: 1510px × 1655px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidsocialenglan, bookyear1902
