. 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 . - importance to their Froissart says, speaking of thedays before Crecy, they never usedto count anything more tlian thenumber of lieaumes couronnes (crested helmets) of knightly horse-men that followed them. If Kdward III. au<l the l!la(dvirince had endeavoured to copewith their adversaries by leadingcharges of mailed horse againstthem, disaster only could have fol-lowed. The French were
. 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 . - importance to their Froissart says, speaking of thedays before Crecy, they never usedto count anything more tlian thenumber of lieaumes couronnes (crested helmets) of knightly horse-men that followed them. If Kdward III. au<l the l!la(dvirince had endeavoured to copewith their adversaries by leadingcharges of mailed horse againstthem, disaster only could have fol-lowed. The French were as gallantas and far more numerous than the English was the want of a sufficient force of cavalry thatcompelled them to give battle in a new style, acting onthe defensive and making the infantry the more importantelement in the line of battle. The sole weak point of thearchery was that, if unprotected on the wings, they miglitbe taken at disadvantage and rolKil up by cavalry assailingthem from the flank. This was what had happened on thedisastrous field of Bannockburn, where the archers, ill-placed,. X KNIGHT OF 1347. fault of leaving hiscavalry without first of his bowmen. THE ART OF WAR. 237 13991 and not aided by the cavalry, hail been taken in tlanlcby Bruces small body of horse and driven off the cavalr}-, unaifled by bowmen, had been proved imableto break the Scottish squares, and had finally grown de-moralised and fled. Edward III. never committed thearchery unsupported, or of employingpreparing the way for them by the firemethods niay be best illustrated byhis management of the battle of the English line was composedof two divisions, comiijanded respectivelybv the Prince of Wales and the Earlof Xorthampton. In each about twdthousand archers and eight hundredmen-at-arms were pla<;ed. Tlie archerswere drawn nji in wedge-shaped for-mation, ? like a (^triangular) harrow,as Froissart expresses it. Between thewedges and on the flanks of
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