The British nation a history / by George MWrong . in August, 1350, Edward Renewed war. attacked their fl^ct between AVinchelsea and Naval victory over the Span- Sluys. A dcsperatc struggle followed. Eng-I^f*^^ ?^P^. lauds chivalry was there—the king, the The battle is t n • i • -. , m- sometimes Princc of A\ ales, and the chief nobility—and called that of jj^ ^|^g evening Edward landed at Winchel-gnols Sur Mer. s^a, the winner of the first great English vic-tory over the Spaniards upon the seas. Hispeople called him King of the Seas —an early claimto their supremacy in sea power. The war with
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . in August, 1350, Edward Renewed war. attacked their fl^ct between AVinchelsea and Naval victory over the Span- Sluys. A dcsperatc struggle followed. Eng-I^f*^^ ?^P^. lauds chivalry was there—the king, the The battle is t n • i • -. , m- sometimes Princc of A\ ales, and the chief nobility—and called that of jj^ ^|^g evening Edward landed at Winchel-gnols Sur Mer. s^a, the winner of the first great English vic-tory over the Spaniards upon the seas. Hispeople called him King of the Seas —an early claimto their supremacy in sea power. The war with France and Scotland continued. At / „ , . Mauron, in Brittany, the French met with dis- Enghsh victory ? ^ t i over the French aster 111 1352, and four years later came a de-atPoitiers, fg.^t aliiiost as Crushing as Crecy. Poitiers is\ the second great English victory on the Con- tinent. Edward, Prince of AYales, known as The BlackPrince, had marched out from Bordeaux to ravage the 180 THE BRITISH NATIOX introduction ofartillery,. TllK CA:rTLE 1)EFEXCE BeFOKE l)\v aiul cross-lxjw. south of France and had gathered a huge mass of bootyAvhen a French army under King John and his son Philipattacked him near triumph of the Englishwas comi^lete, and King Johnand his son remained prisonersin their hands. After Poitiers,the French, inferior in the openfield, preferred to shut them-selves up within The French now n i , t offer better walled towns and resistance. The to leave the enemyto harry the coun-try, but the advan-tages of this defensive warfarewere lessened by the use ofartillery, which began in thesecond quarter of this century. Cannon were invented before the smaller arms, but ourgeneration, strong for destruction, smiles at their feeble-ness. Stones were often used as cannon-balls, and onlyabout three shots could be fired in an hour. Yet with the appearance of can-non the glory ofthe mediaeval cas-tle declined ; liith-erto the most for-m
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