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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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le loss of their posses-sions in that country. Here opens the second half of the Hundred Years War. In 1415 Henry,after giving warning that the truce was at an end, landed on the French coastat Harfleur, besieged and took the town, and then started on such a raidthrough the land as his predecessors had made. Charles the Wise was dead,Du Guesclin was dead, Clisson banished, the nobles—the Orleanist faction atthe moment—were again in power. They pursued Henry with the old, furioushaste; and the battle of Agincourt repeated the tale of Crecy and Poitiers. The Duke of Orleans had commanded the French army; he was takenprisoner with most of his supporters, and the power of the Orleanists wasbroken. Paris, however, still remained in the hands of the remnant of theirparty, and was taxed into utter poverty before the oppressors were driven outby the Burgundians. Many of the Orleanists were imprisoned ; an angry Parismob stormed the jails and slew them by thousands. The other prisoners and
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THE INSPIRATION OF JOAN OF ARC France—Conquest by Henry of England 839 even the jailers perished with them. It was like a scene from the Reign ofTerror, enacted before its time. Thus the two factions continued warring ferociously, paying no heed toHenry of England, who pursued his conquests unchecked. Slowly andpatiently he made himself master of all the Norman towns. Caen, then thechief city of the coast lands, surrendered in 1417. Rouen, the mighty capitalof upper Normandy, was besieged in 1418. The citizens were reduced tostarvation. They turned out all their non-combatants, women, children, andold men, and grimly watched them perish before their eyes, for Henry, hopingto drive them back upon the city, refused them passage through his lines.Only on Christmas day did he relax for a moment from his cruelty and supplya meal to the miserable suppliants. Rouen sent a message to the king, or rather, to John the Fearless, ofBurgundy, Fifty thousand of our people have starved to death in

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