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The Hundred Years War. Volume I : Trial by battle

By Jonathan Sumption

Book information

Publisher
Faber and Faber
Year
1999
ISBN
9780571200955, 0571200958
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
26 MB (27165189 bytes)
Volume
1
Pages
659\673
Topic
History
Time added
2017-01-11 11:49:57
1066-1485;France -- History1328-1589;Great Britain -- History -- Medieval per1339-1453;France -- History -- House of ValoisHundred Years’ WarMilitary -- 1066-1485;France;Great BritainMilitary -- 1328-1589;Great Britain -- History

Description

A succession of catastrophes in the middle years of the fourteenth century brought France to the brink of destruction. The bankruptcy of the French state and a bitter civil war within the royal family were followed by the defeat and capture of the King of France by the Black Prince at Poitiers. A peasant revolt and a violent revolution in Paris completed the tragedy. In a humiliating treaty of partition France ceded more than a third of its territory to Edward III of England. Not for sixty years would the English again come so close to total victory. France's great cities, provincial towns and rural communities resisted where its leaders failed. They withstood the sustained savagery of the soldiers and the free companies of brigands to undo most of Edward III's work in the following generation. England's triumphs proved to be brittle and short-lived.

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