#booksubject:World_War__1914_1918

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Image from page 268 of "Mediaeval and modern history" (1905) by Internet Archive Book Images Via Flickr: Identifier: mediaevalmodernh00myer Title: Mediaeval and modern history Year: 1905 (1900s) Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937 Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918 Publisher: Boston : Ginn & Company Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: y scattered and theirleaders were pitilessly put to death. Yet the insurrection was a success after all. The fear of anotheruprising and the inefficient character of sullen labor caused thelandlords to hasten the process that had long been going on ofcommuting into money payments or rents the grudgingly renderedpersonal services of the serfs. At the end of a hundred years afterthe revolt there were very few serfs to be found in England. The aboHtion of serfdom was an important step in the nation-alization of the English people. Sweeping away artificial barriersbetween classes, it hastened the unification of English society andthe creation of a true English nation. 220. Battle of Agincourt (1415). — During the reign in Englandof Henry V, the second, sovereign of the House of Lancaster,France was unfortunate in having an insane king, Charles VI; andHenry, taking advantage of the disorder into which the Frenchkingdom naturally fell under these circumstances, invaded the JOAN OF ARC 213 Text Appearing After Image: country with a powerful army. After losing a great part of hisfollowers through sickness, Henry finally, with a force of onlyabout ten thousand men, chiefly archers, met a French feudalarmy fifty thousand strong on the field of Agincourt. The Frenchsuffered a most humiliating defeat, their terrible losses falling,as at Crecy, chiefly uponthe knighthood. Fiveyears later was con-cluded the Treaty ofTroyes, according to theterms of which theFrench crown, uponthe death of Charles,was to go to the Englishking. 221. Joan of Arc; theRelief of Orleans (1429).— But patriotism wasnot yet wholly extinct among the French people. There were many who regarded theconcessions of the Treaty of Troyes as not only weak and shame-ful but as unjust to the Dauphin Charles, who was thereby disin-herited, and they accordingly refused to be bound by its provisions.Consequently, when the poor insane king died, the terms of thetreaty could not be carried out in full, and the war dragged on.The party that stoo Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.