This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...the awful slaughter among the Orleanist leaders at Agincourt, Louis the dauphin sent to the south for the last surviving man of mark of his party, Bernard, Count of Armagnac, the father-in-law of the captive Orleans. Just before he arrived with 6,000 Gascon lances the dauphin died. Nevertheless, the king accepted 1416 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...the awful slaughter among the Orleanist leaders at Agincourt, Louis the dauphin sent to the south for the last surviving man of mark of his party, Bernard, Count of Armagnac, the father-in-law of the captive Orleans. Just before he arrived with 6,000 Gascon lances the dauphin died. Nevertheless, the king accepted 1416 BERNARD OF ARMAGNAC. 261 Armagnac's protection, and made him Constable of France CHAP, in place of the dead Albret. Count Bernard was a ruthless, XIunscrupulous, border baron, with more of the buccaneer than the statesman in his character, who cheerfully took up the responsibility of continuing the war with England, so John of Burgundy was compelled to continue in the ungrateful role of rebel and enemy of his country. Before six months were out he had negotiated a private peace with King Henry for all his dominions on June 24, 1416. The war therefore remained a purely Armagnac affair; the constable raised levies to blockade Harfleur, and ordered a fleet to collect in Norman waters so as to cut off its communication with England. But with Burgundy always in front of him, and Paris notoriously disaffected, he could not spare much attention for such matters. Meanwhile Henry made 1416 a year of preparation, rather than of action. The length and costliness of the siege of Harfleur had warned him that the conquest of France, fortress by fortress, would be a harder matter than he had at first supposed. He prepared to raise a much larger army than that of 1415. To collect the necessary funds he called two parliaments; they sat but a short time, and transacted little but financial business. The glamour of Agincourt had silenced all criticism; the usual petulant petitions of the Commons were no longer heard, and the supply voted--two tenths and two fift...
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