. 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 . ht hundredmen-at-arms were pla<;ed. Tlie archerswere drawn nji in wedge-shaped for-mation, ? like a (^triangular) harrow,as Froissart expresses it. Between thewedges and on the flanks of themwere the men-at-arms, a little drawnback, ail fond de la hataille. Theking kept in second line a reserveof two thousand archers and sevenhiuidred lances, while between thetwo lines were scattered in smallbodies somew
. 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 . ht hundredmen-at-arms were pla<;ed. Tlie archerswere drawn nji in wedge-shaped for-mation, ? like a (^triangular) harrow,as Froissart expresses it. Between thewedges and on the flanks of themwere the men-at-arms, a little drawnback, ail fond de la hataille. Theking kept in second line a reserveof two thousand archers and sevenhiuidred lances, while between thetwo lines were scattered in smallbodies somewhat more than a thousandWelsh and (^,ornish light infantry,armed with javelins and long position wax on the slope of agentle hill crowned by a windmill, andwas covered at each end by twovillages with enclosiues, which madeflank attacks difficult. For the first time in English liis-tory, p]dward made the majority of his knights and men-at-arms dismount. The sixteenhundred horsemen in the front lino all sent their horsesto the rear and acted in serried clumps us heavy tiie line was composed alternately of triangular bodies of Edwardni. as aTactician:His [Cvhlnim, Kent.) •238 THE BLACK DEATH, AXD AFTERWARDS. [1348 archery, and snialicr squares of dismonnted knin-hts using thelong lance. Only the seven hundred men-at-arjns in thereserve remained on hursehack. Philip of Valois lirought against the nine or ten thousandEui^iish an army at least five or six times as strong, and eoui-prisinu as many mailed horsemen as Edward had troops ofevery sort. His front of battle, hastily and unevenly funned—for the tight was forced on against his wish by the ardour of thekniglits in his van division—was in four successive lim^s: firsta vanguard of (lenoese ciossbowmen, then a line of siinadrons
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