. 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 . HEXRY YI. {Xalifuml Portrait (tallcrii.) 14851 THE REIGX OF JIEyiiV VI. 407 ot l^uehan and I)oui;las insisted on attacking the English atVerneuil (1424), and butli fell in this great hattle, which demon-strated once more that the long-bow still counterbalancedalmost any inferiority in numbers. At Agincourt were manymore princes and j^eople; Crevant was a pretty affair; but. IIKNUV VX., AS A cniLl).
. 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 . HEXRY YI. {Xalifuml Portrait (tallcrii.) 14851 THE REIGX OF JIEyiiV VI. 407 ot l^uehan and I)oui;las insisted on attacking the English atVerneuil (1424), and butli fell in this great hattle, which demon-strated once more that the long-bow still counterbalancedalmost any inferiority in numbers. At Agincourt were manymore princes and j^eople; Crevant was a pretty affair; but. IIKNUV VX., AS A cniLl). io 1111, (Jli. iJuui. A. iwi.). Verneuil was the most terrible and the best fought of thethree. This is the judgment of Waurin, the Burgundianchronicler, who was himself present on each field. In and Champagne were subdticd. In 1426 the invaderswere still advancing further south. In 1427, despite ,thej were still sti-ong enough to undertake the great enterprise 4<18 THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES. 11399 of forcing the barrier of the Loire. Salisbur}-, wIki, in aletter to the Londoners, was able to enumerate thirty-eight Siege of places captured that year, in October began to invest Orleans. Orleans. Despite Salisburys death and the resistance of the garrison,the city began to feel want. Sir John Fastolfs skilful defenceof a convoy and his decisive victory, the Battle of theHerrings, over the large assailing force of French, was onemore timely proof of the English superiority in the open seemed doomed. Norm
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