Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations . army of Charles wasrouted and dispersed. The baggage and suj>plytrains were captured. All the treasuies ofwhich France had been despoiled to maintainthe ill-starred campaign were wasted or takenby the enemy. It is related that of all thegold and silver which the regent carried out ofFranco only a single drinking-cup was coi iplete humiliatio
Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations . army of Charles wasrouted and dispersed. The baggage and suj>plytrains were captured. All the treasuies ofwhich France had been despoiled to maintainthe ill-starred campaign were wasted or takenby the enemy. It is related that of all thegold and silver which the regent carried out ofFranco only a single drinking-cup was coi iplete humiliation the duke made hiaway back to Paris, and presently died of mor-tification and despair. Notwithstanding the complete collapse andfailure of the expedition against Naples, theclaims of the Duke of Anjou to that kingdomwere renewed by his son Louis, who, after hisfathers death, assumed the title of Louis II., 64 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. king of Naples. But the pretensions thus ad-vanced had only a fictitious importance, beingvaluable to future rulers of France, ambitiousto invade Italy, rather than to the contempo-Taries of the House of Valois. The absence of the Duke of Anjou iu theNeapolitan war furnished the Duke of Bur-. M)r.\(i VI. IN THE lcilU>T OF -MANS. gundy with a good pretext for seizing uponthe regency. More aspiring than his brother,he used the resources of the kingdom and theyoung king himself as the means of promotinghis own ambitions. One of the steps in hisprogress was his marriage with the heiress ofFlanders, with whom he expected sooner orlater to receive the earldom of her afterwards, when the Flemings rose in revolt, the French duke made his relationshipthe pretext for interference. He advancedinto Flanders at the head of a large army,and gained a great victory over the insurgents-in the battle of Rosbee. The affairs of theearldom were settled on a basis satisfactory to-the duke, and he returned in triumph to-Paris. In
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