. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. HORSEMAN IN FULL ARMORPeriod of the Hundred Years War. Note thatdelicate plate-mail has now replaced the earlier ring-mail. This was the highest development of the arm-orers art, which reached its perfection just beforethe coming of gunpowder. {From a restoration inthe MusSe dArttilerie, Paris) THE HUNDRED YEARS* WAR 171 The slaughter wrought by the long bows was horrible. TheFrench fell in heaps, shot down usually before they could evenstrike their lances against the terrible bowmen. Twelve hun-dred knights, thirty thousand ran
. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. HORSEMAN IN FULL ARMORPeriod of the Hundred Years War. Note thatdelicate plate-mail has now replaced the earlier ring-mail. This was the highest development of the arm-orers art, which reached its perfection just beforethe coming of gunpowder. {From a restoration inthe MusSe dArttilerie, Paris) THE HUNDRED YEARS* WAR 171 The slaughter wrought by the long bows was horrible. TheFrench fell in heaps, shot down usually before they could evenstrike their lances against the terrible bowmen. Twelve hun-dred knights, thirty thousand rank and file of the attackers, aresaid to have perished, ere the remnant of Philips army driftedaway in rout. Edward pursued his march to the seaboard, and. FRANCE DURING THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR after a long siege took Calais (1347) — an important port oppo-site England. He held now a door into France, a convenientbase for any subsequent attack toward Normandy and 1 Calais remained in English hands until 1558. During the entire interval itwas a thorn in the side of the French. 172 HISTORY OF EUROPE 92. Poitiers and the Treaty of Bretigny. Further campaign-ing was suspended for the time being by the direful BlackDeath, a pestilence from the Orient which now swept overEurope (1348) and smote victor and vanquished alike. Onethird of the whole population of Europe is alleged to have died,and in some districts probably more than half of all the inhab-itants. Such a visitation, of course, disorganized alike warfareand peaceful commerce and Yet in a short timethe contest was renewed. The English kings had always kepta part of the old Angevin dominions in Guienne. Now theil Black Prince, the capable son of Edward III,2 condu
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