The Life and Times of Bertrand Du Guesclin...Trübner, 1864 |
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Actes de Bretagne André archers armour arms army attack aunt battle Bertrand du Guesclin besieged Bretagne Breton brother Buchon Calais Cange Captal de Buch Chap Charles de Blois chronicle Chronique Anonyme citizens combat command commenced Count de Montfort Countess de Montfort Cuvelier dauphin Du Cange duchy of Brittany Duke of Brittany Duke of Lancaster Earl Edward Edward III enemies English knight entered father force Free Companies French Froissart garrison gave Henry herald Hist honour horse Jeanne joust king of England king of France king of Navarre kingdom knights and squires lance late Duke leaders Lord Robert d'Artois Morice mother Nangi noble Normandy Palaye Paris party Philippe de Valois prisoner province Regnault du Guesclin replied returned says sent siege Sir Eustace Sir John Chandos Sir Regnault slain soon surrender sword thereupon thousand took tournaments town of Rennes treaty troops uncle valour wine
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Página 162 - Florence to this their general Hawkwood, who, in testimony of his surpassing valour and singular faithful service to their State, adorned him with the statue of a man of arms, and sumptuous monument, wherein his ashes remain honoured at this present . day. Well it is that monument doth remain : seeing his cenotaph, or honorary tomb, which sometime stood in the parish church of Sible-Hedingham (arched over, and, in allusion to his name, be~rebussed with hawks flying into a wood), is now quite flown...
Página 41 - Walter, saw this shower of fire, he cried out, " Gentlemen, we are Greeks by Callinicus the architect, a native of Heliopolis, a town in Syria, under Constantinus Barbatus ; and likewise because the Greeks were for a long time the only people who preserved the use of it, which they very rarely communicated to any of their allies. Anna Comnena says, that this fire was made with pitch and other gums from trees, mixed with sulphur, and the whole ground together. Abbon, in the first book of the Wars...
Página 146 - France, in dislike of their power, he drove the people before him like sheep, destroying towns, castles, and cities, in such manner and number, that long after, in memory of this act, the sharp points and gable ends of overthrown houses and minsters were called Knollcs's Mitres.
Página 41 - ... king of Africa, burnt with vessels that were filled with dry wood and other combustibles, and which he floated down the stream, the whole of the Grecian fleet. Secondly, by artificial fires on the prows of these vessels, placed in large tubes of copper, through which they blew them into the enemy's ships. With regard to the use of the Greek fire...
Página 183 - Tradition makes him a man of teeth and hands, who would feed as much as two, and fight as much as ten men. His quick and strong appetite could digest anything but an injury...
Página 8 - Paris , but his wife, a courageous and beautiful woman, who is said to have had the courage of a man and the heart of a lion...
Página 41 - Biringuccio, in the tenth book of his Pyrotechny, chap. 9, has described all the materials that form part of the artificial fireworks which the Greeks made use of to burn the vessels of their enemies. The Greeks made use of this fire when at sea, in two ways ; first by fire-ships filled with this fire, that were floated among the enemies' fleet, and thus set them on fire.
Página 41 - Comnena, in the 13th book of her Alexiade. Sometimes they threw sharp bolts of iron, covered with tow, well oiled and pitched, with which they set fire to the engines. Joinville speaks of this fire, "and they opened a very quick fire upon us with balls made of the Greek fire.