The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . HI HENRY VI., one of the 111-Iffl fated kings of England, wassurnamed Windsor, from hisbirth in that borough onthe 6th of December, was the only issue of thegallant Henry V., by hisqueen, the Princess Cathe-rine of France. The his-torian Hume has called thisreign a perpetual minor-ity on account of theprinces total incapacity forgovernment. He was butnine months old when hisfather died, on the 1st of September, 1422. The Duke ofBedford was made Regent of France, while Humphrey,Duke of Gloucester, bore t
The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . HI HENRY VI., one of the 111-Iffl fated kings of England, wassurnamed Windsor, from hisbirth in that borough onthe 6th of December, was the only issue of thegallant Henry V., by hisqueen, the Princess Cathe-rine of France. The his-torian Hume has called thisreign a perpetual minor-ity on account of theprinces total incapacity forgovernment. He was butnine months old when hisfather died, on the 1st of September, 1422. The Duke ofBedford was made Regent of France, while Humphrey,Duke of Gloucester, bore the title, Protector of the Realmof England. The infant Henry was solemnly invested with the crownof France by ambassadors sent for that purpose, and thevigor and abilities of the regent Bedford for some time foiled theattempts of the Dauphin Charles to recover his a change of fortune began when the heroic Joan of Arcsought the presence of Charles and declared that she had amission from Heaven to drive the English from Orleans andto lead the Dauphin to Rheims. Cla
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