The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Movable Bkeachin Renewed wardisastrous tothe English, 182 THE BKITISU NATION levied oppressive taxes on liis new subjects, who turnedto the King of France as their deliverer. King John,moreover, could not pay his ransom and died a captive inEngland. A crisis came in 1369 when Charles of Francesummoned the Black Prince as Duke of Aquitaine to ap-pear before him at Paris to answer complaints of his vas- MS ^^ . „..oL- •*•:- ^1 FRANCE t « I^ JL .--^ ??•?•? T^ 4^ t> •»? BrctiB C. !»Hirg»-? ^ Z^ T— I860. aty. sals. To this reassert
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Movable Bkeachin Renewed wardisastrous tothe English, 182 THE BKITISU NATION levied oppressive taxes on liis new subjects, who turnedto the King of France as their deliverer. King John,moreover, could not pay his ransom and died a captive inEngland. A crisis came in 1369 when Charles of Francesummoned the Black Prince as Duke of Aquitaine to ap-pear before him at Paris to answer complaints of his vas- MS ^^ . „..oL- •*•:- ^1 FRANCE t « I^ JL .--^ ??•?•? T^ 4^ t> •»? BrctiB C. !»Hirg»-? ^ Z^ T— I860. aty. sals. To this reassertion of the sovereignty renouncedin 1360 the prince replied that he would go to Paris,but at the head of sixty thousand men, and Edward oncemore assumed the title of King of France. But the sec-ond war proved disastrous to the English. They losttheir cities in Aquitaine one by one, and the Black Princeat length went home to England with a mor-tal illness, to linger a few years and to diebefore his father. His brother, John of Gaunt, led anarmy to Aquitaine but could do little against the brilliant Truce in 1374, ENGLAND IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY 183 French leader du Guesclin, and finally made a truce whichleft to the French what they had gained. Fruitless enough were the wars of Edward III andtheir cruel and bloody character, the oppressions whichThe losses and ^^^J involved for the common people, aregains of the not to be Concealed by the waving plumes^^^ and banners of the media3val pageant or by the florid courtesy of the age of chivalry. Yet theirhistory, it h
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