Ontario High School History of England . The Castle Defence before Aktillert The bow and the cross-bow. THE HUNDREDS YEARS* WAR 123. Cannon, Fifteenth Century Poitiers. It was a long, hard fight, but the French hadnot yet learned how to meet the English, and their king,John, was defeated and taken prisoner. The English werenow free to plunder France, and they gathered and senthome a vast hear not only ofgold and silver, butof clothes, furs, evenfeather-beds, beingsent to bandsstripped parts ofFrance bare. Thou-sands of the peasantsperished. Whole dis-tricts lay deso
Ontario High School History of England . The Castle Defence before Aktillert The bow and the cross-bow. THE HUNDREDS YEARS* WAR 123. Cannon, Fifteenth Century Poitiers. It was a long, hard fight, but the French hadnot yet learned how to meet the English, and their king,John, was defeated and taken prisoner. The English werenow free to plunder France, and they gathered and senthome a vast hear not only ofgold and silver, butof clothes, furs, evenfeather-beds, beingsent to bandsstripped parts ofFrance bare. Thou-sands of the peasantsperished. Whole dis-tricts lay desolate,the houses in ruins,the land unpeopled, except by a few half-starving wretcheswho still lingered about their former homes. Such resultshad Edward brought on France by his resolve to be herking. The effect on England was no better, for there thestruggle aroused a greedy lust for conquest and plunder. The first use of cannon.—After Poitiers, the French,inferior in the open field, shut themselves up within walledtowns, and left the enemy to harry their country. Againstthe walls of town and castle the English soon began tou
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