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Title: A history of the art of war, the middle ages from the fourth to the fourteenth century
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Oman, Charles William Chadwick, Sir, 1860-1946
Subjects: Military art and science Military history, Medieval
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e walls. The place wasnot sufficiently provisioned, nor were the defences of thesouthern suburb very strong, so that the besiegers were in highspirits and full of confidence. After Simons arrival, the Countof Toulouse proposed to fortify the camp with a palisade,^ inorder to provide against any sudden sortie of the garrison.His previous experience had taught him to fear Montfort, andhe had seen at Castelnaudary in 1211 that nothing short ofentrenchments would stop the French cavalry.^ But the ^ Here we are much indebted to Ihe late M, Delpechs careful topographicalsketch in his Tactique au xiiiw^ siecle, 2 Fassam entorn las tendas las barrieras dressar, Que nuls horn a caval non puesca intrar,E nos ab las balestas los farem totz navrar. Canso, lines 3009-11,2 See the Canso, § 105. PLATE XIV. BATTLE OF Sept 12. L213. Moiitforts Anriy 121Kin^> Peters „ k Bouchard deMarly B. William Din contre. C. Count Simon D. Count ofFoixl.Kin^ Peter. /i\ ./i\- p»Camo or .:/A.- Camp oF JA.- p p
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C ha r,b 6n i ere 1 - * V *A. I2I3) AIURET: MONTFORT ARRIVES 451 Aragonese laughed him to scorn. It is by such pieces ofcowardice, Sir Count, cried Michael de Luzian, that youhave already allowed yourself to be disinherited of your vastdomains. After that word, replied Raymond, I can sayno more, and his proposal dropped. King Peter, who allowed his barons to use such discourteouslanguage to his ally, was no fit leader for a host that had tocope with the fierce and wily Simon. He was a mere knight-errant, the hero of many tourneys and many raids against theMoor, but wholly unable to match himself with the accomplishedprofessional soldier who was watching him from behind thewalls of Muret. What Montfort thought of his adversary weknow from a characteristic anecdote preserved by William ofPuy - Laurent One of Peters couriers was surprised on hisroute by the French: he bore a letter to the kings mistress,the wife of a baron of Languedoc, telling her that he had under-taken his great enter

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