The British nation a history / by George MWrong . •Movable BuEAcmxtj Towek. Renewed wardisastrous tothe English, 182 THE BRITISH NATION levied oppressive taxes on his new subjects, who turnedto the King of France as their deliverer. King Jolm,moreover, could not pay his ransom and died a captive inEngland. A crisis came in 13G0 when Charles of Francesummoned the Black Prince as Duke of Aquitaine to ap-pear before him at Paris to answer complaints of his vas- ,„• . .f IVlMcIl-,! - FRANCE at tlif Treaty uf Bretigny ISOO. v. I ENGLISH TERRITORVI , FRENCH TERRITORY. ^y^J, MEDITEKRAXEAX SEA sals. T
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . •Movable BuEAcmxtj Towek. Renewed wardisastrous tothe English, 182 THE BRITISH NATION levied oppressive taxes on his new subjects, who turnedto the King of France as their deliverer. King Jolm,moreover, could not pay his ransom and died a captive inEngland. A crisis came in 13G0 when Charles of Francesummoned the Black Prince as Duke of Aquitaine to ap-pear before him at Paris to answer complaints of his vas- ,„• . .f IVlMcIl-,! - FRANCE at tlif Treaty uf Bretigny ISOO. v. I ENGLISH TERRITORVI , FRENCH TERRITORY. ^y^J, MEDITEKRAXEAX SEA 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 Prince at lengtli went home to England with a mor- Truce ill 1374. , i -n^ j. t j- ^ i j. t tal illness, to linger a lew years and to die before his father. His brother, Jobn of Gaunt, led an army to A(|uitaine but could do little against the brilliant ENGLAND IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY 183 French leader du Gnesclin, and finally made a truce whichleft to the French what they had gained. Fruitless enough were the wars of Edward HI andtheir cruel and bloody character, the op^iressions whichThe losses and ^^^^ involved for the common people, aregains of the not to be Concealed by the waving plumes^^^ and banners of the mediaeval pageant or by t]io flori
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