Ontario High School History of England . er the many, if soHe please. It seemed as if the Frenchhad learned nothing since Crecy. Oncemore their mounted knights charged against English archers armed with ,1 , ,, , 1 . ., 1 • 1 , Dismounted French the deadly long-bow. As the knights knight about 1415 dashed across ploughed fields, soft from Note the heavy plate heavy rain, their horses stuck fast in the armour. mud, and the English showered arrows upon the helpless riders. When these dismounted and tried to fight on foot in their armour, its weight left them still helpless. The English archers c
Ontario High School History of England . er the many, if soHe please. It seemed as if the Frenchhad learned nothing since Crecy. Oncemore their mounted knights charged against English archers armed with ,1 , ,, , 1 . ., 1 • 1 , Dismounted French the deadly long-bow. As the knights knight about 1415 dashed across ploughed fields, soft from Note the heavy plate heavy rain, their horses stuck fast in the armour. mud, and the English showered arrows upon the helpless riders. When these dismounted and tried to fight on foot in their armour, its weight left them still helpless. The English archers carried heavy leaden mallets with which they crashed through the head-piece and broke the skull of many a cumbered Frenchman. The slaughter on the field was terrible and was increased by the massacre of the prisoners; for Henry, fearing a renewed attack on his small force, ordered that those whom he had taken should be killed. Many of the slain were nobles. It was especially for the chivalry of France that Agincourt was so fatal a 148 HISTORY OF ENGLAND The Treaty of Troyes, 1430.—When Henry returnedhome, the people waded out into the sea at Dover to carryhim ashore. He was now a great popular hero, and alldanger of such plots as had troubled the beginning of hisreign (p. 145) was over. The war went on. Henry attackedRouen, the capital of Normandy. When it fell in 1419 aftera cruel siege, we find Henry granting Norman lands toEnglishmen as William the Conqueror had granted Englishlands to Normans. So bitter was the war between thetwo factions in France, that one of them, the Armaguacs,caused, in 1419, the murder of the Duke of Burgundy, theleader of the opposing party. This drove the new Dukeof Burgundy into an alliance with the English, which soaided Heniys plans that in 1420 he could dictate thehumiliating Treaty of Troyes. Under it Henry marriedKatherine, the daughter of the king of France, and wasadopted as heir to the throne. Meanwhile, Henry was to beregent, and
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