. The life and times of Bertrand Du Guesclin [electronic resource]: a history of the fourteenth century. created himcommander of all the knights of his household, and sent himinto Quercy, witSi a force of five hundred men-at-arms, fivehundred archers, and as many foot-soldiers. But all this * In a grant, at this period, of the county of Bigorre to the Captal deBuch, by the Prince of Wales, Edward styles himself Prince of Wales,Lord of Biscay and of Castro de Ordiales.—Rymer, vol. iii. par. 874. Chap. 9.] Bertrand dn Guesclin. 117 preparation was followed by no corresponding result. Afew
. The life and times of Bertrand Du Guesclin [electronic resource]: a history of the fourteenth century. created himcommander of all the knights of his household, and sent himinto Quercy, witSi a force of five hundred men-at-arms, fivehundred archers, and as many foot-soldiers. But all this * In a grant, at this period, of the county of Bigorre to the Captal deBuch, by the Prince of Wales, Edward styles himself Prince of Wales,Lord of Biscay and of Castro de Ordiales.—Rymer, vol. iii. par. 874. Chap. 9.] Bertrand dn Guesclin. 117 preparation was followed by no corresponding result. Afew towns changed hands, a few fortresses were taken—sometimes one party gained, and sometimes another; andthe campaign is, perhaps, only worthy of note for the exces-sive severity of the conquerors to the conquered, in the in-discriminate butchery of the inhabitants of certain towns, and,what was far more common, in the predatory incursions ofthat period, in laying waste and destroying the whole opencountry, and reducing the poor people to great misery. * * Froissart, liv. i. part ii. pp. 563, ^yny*j ^sfe^^tr •IeEP fcw^ll ii^tl .:.jjy^ W^N^^PifcAV^t iHf ^Hl ^^^^B BBSs ^MdoBrae iife l?mi^flirnfffl« mbbBB Httdflfl CHAPTER X. A change in the fortunes of Edward III. The death of Sir John du Giiesclin is recalled from Spain. His first exploits afterhis return to France.
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