 | 1820 - 496 pages
...— Not the nobility of England, not the feudal tenants, won the battles of Cressy and Poitiers, for these were fully matched in the ranks of France, but...bow with strong and steady arms, accustomed to its u*e in their native fields, and rendered fearless by personal competence and civil freedom." Now, after... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 590 pages
...the nobility of England, not the feudal tenants alone, won the battles of Cressy and Poitiers, for these were fully matched in the ranks of France; but...fearless by personal competence and civil freedom." It was at the battle of Cressy that Edward's heroic son, although only in his sixteenth year, " won his... | |
 | Hannah Lawrance - Great Britain - 1840 - 474 pages
..." Not the nobility of England, not the feudal tenants, won the battles of Cressy and Poictiers, for these were fully matched in the ranks of France ;...fearless by personal competence, and civil freedom."* On the details of this battle, as every historian gives a full, and, in most instances, a fairly accurate... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...people. Not the nobility of England, not the feudal tenants, won the battles of Cressy and Poitiers, for these were fully matched in the ranks of France, but...rendered fearless by personal competence and civil freedom.-)Now, after all that we have heard of the art of war being formed- into a regular system,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1845 - 438 pages
...people. Not the nobility of England, not the feudal tenants, won the battles of Cressy and Poitiers, for these were fully matched in the ranks of France, but...rendered fearless by personal competence and civil freedom/)Now, after all that we have heard of the an of war being formed into a regular system, of... | |
 | Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue Baron Carlingford - Feudalism - 1846 - 80 pages
...founded upon Froissart, " not the feudal tenants won the battles of Cressy and Poictiers, for they were fully matched in the ranks of France ; but the...fearless by personal competence and civil freedom V The testimony of a writer in the e Mackintosh, Hist, of England, i. 268. >' Ed. Rev., No. 167. p.... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 696 pages
...people. Not the nobility of England, not the feudal tenants, won the battles of Cressy and Poitiers, for these were fully matched in the ranks of France, but...rendered fearless by personal competence and civil freedom/'J Now, after all that we have heard of the art of war being formed into a regular system,... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 410 pages
...people. Not the nobility of England, not the feudal tenants, won the battles of Cressy and Poitiers, for these were fully matched in the ranks of France, but...rendered fearless by personal competence and civil freedom.-)Now, after all that we have heard of the art of war being formed into a regular system, of... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1853 - 420 pages
...not the feudal retainers, as Hallam observes, gained the victories of Cressy and Poictiers, for they were fully matched in the ranks of France ; but the...fearless by personal competence and civil freedom. 23. The Scotch government, whose armies had suffered so often from the English archers, in vain passed... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1853 - 448 pages
...not the feudal retainers, as Hallam observes, gained the victories of Creasy and Poictiers, for they were fully matched in the ranks of France ; but the...fearless by personal competence and civil freedom. 23. The Scotch government, whose armies had suffered so often from the English archers, in vain passed... | |
| |
Cressy and Poitiers, for these were fully matched in the ranks of France, but the yeomen who drew the bow with strong and steady arms, accustomed to its use in their native fields, and rendered fearless by personal competence and civil... 
