. 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 . \ A. T:,e rrinno/ ll-nlis. :,i B. I .M t .^r .\orllutm;l0n. of .1 C. ktiis lid-itiaril. F. Tht D:,ii,:/\lkui,ltO. ticnocse. Loitatiif i-rCoitnt of 11348 of the art of war. It led to the discrediting of the use ofcavahy charges all over Western Europe, much as the result of Senipach did in CentralEurope, On the English sideit inaugurated the regularuse of the nian-at-arnis asa dismounted soldier tocover
. 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 . \ A. T:,e rrinno/ ll-nlis. :,i B. I .M t .^r .\orllutm;l0n. of .1 C. ktiis lid-itiaril. F. Tht D:,ii,:/\lkui,ltO. ticnocse. Loitatiif i-rCoitnt of 11348 of the art of war. It led to the discrediting of the use ofcavahy charges all over Western Europe, much as the result of Senipach did in CentralEurope, On the English sideit inaugurated the regularuse of the nian-at-arnis asa dismounted soldier tocover tlie arclury from flankattacks. Eor the future theEnglish knighthood liabitu-ally sent their horses to therear and shared the fortunesof the yeomanry on a hundred yiars ourarmies always endeavouredto receive battle under thesame conditions as at (recy,in a good position with flankscovered by wood, marsh, orand with an array romposed of archery, interspersedof (lismountcil Illiln,-,, „f EiLihiid : EiUm,.ir„.ml.) houses,with bodies On the French side Crecy led to an even greater revolutionin the art of war. Finding that he could not close, because hishorse would infallibly be killed if he tried to ride in, tln^ I^renchknight, like the English, resolved to tiy his fortune on next the nations met in pitched battle at Poitiers, in 135(ithe French king bade all his knights, save a picked vanguardand two small wings, to dismount, send tlnir horses to the rear,cut short their long lances to six feet only, and advance on foot. The inspiration was not a happy one on the part of King•lolm, for at Poitiers (or rather Maupertuis as we ought to call thefield) the English were in position on a rough hill-side coveredby vines and brushwotid, and protected by lines of hedge. Adismounted knight was not suited for scrambling up a slopeamong tangled underwood. The vanguard of mounted mentried to get at the English through a gap in the hedge whichcovered th
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