So great was the disparity of numbers upon those famous days, that we cannot, with the French historians, attribute the discomfiture of their hosts merely to mistaken tactics and too impetuous valour. They yielded rather to that intrepid steadiness in... View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages - Page 72by Henry Hallam - 1822 - 1666 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1820 - 496 pages
...great was the disparity of numbers upon tho-ie famous days, that we cannot, with the French historian, attribute the discomfiture of their hosts merely to...tactics and too impetuous valour. They yielded rather to the intrepid steadiness in danger, which bad already become the character! -tic of our English soldiers,... | |
| Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...writer* has well observed, " for national exultation at the names of Cressy, Poitiers, and Azincour. So great was the disparity of numbers upon those famous days, that we cannot, with the French historian, attribute the discomfiture of their hosts merely to mistaken tactics and too impetuous valour.... | |
| Archibald Alison - Europe - 1845 - 438 pages
...writer* has well observed, " for national exaltation at the names of Cressy, Poitiers, and Azincour. So great was the disparity of numbers upon those famous days, that we cannot, with the French historian, attribute the discomfiture of their hosts merely to mistaken tactics and too impetuous valour.... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1846 - 610 pages
...for national exultation at icxcciicnco the names of Crecy, Poitiers, and Azincourt. So gn5i."armi"cs. great was the disparity of numbers upon those famous...English soldiers, and which, during four centuries, has insured their superiority, whenever ignorance or infatuation has not led them into the field. But these... | |
| Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 696 pages
...writert has well observed, " for national exultation at the names of Cressy, Poitiers, and Agincourt. So great was the disparity of numbers upon those famous...tactics and too impetuous valour. They yielded rather to the intrepid steadiness in danger, which had already become the characteristic of our English soldiers,... | |
| English essays - 1852 - 410 pages
...writer* haj well observed, " for national exultation at the names of Cressy, Poitiers, and Azinconr. 80 great was the disparity of numbers upon those famous days, that we cannot, with the French historian, attribute the discomfiture of their hosts merely to mistaken tactics and too impetuous valour.... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1853 - 532 pages
...v. tray was much less of a "bataille rangee " }>. G.) France had no internal trade; than Creuy. E 3 famous days, that we cannot, with the French historians,...tactics and too impetuous valour. They yielded rather to th.it intrepid steadiness in danger, which had already become the characteristic of our English soldiers,... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1856 - 532 pages
...(vol. v. tray was much less of a "bataille rangeV' p. 6.) France had no internal trade ; than Crecy. famous days, that we cannot, with the French historians,...characteristic of our English soldiers, and which, during five centuries, has insured their superiority, whenever ignorance or infatuation has not led them into... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1860 - 392 pages
...writer* has well observed, " for national exultation at the names of Cressy, Poitiers, and Azincour. Sc % great was the disparity of numbers upon those famous days, that we cannot, with the French historian, attribute the discomfiture of their hosts merely to mistaken tactics and too impetuous valour.... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1868 - 378 pages
...There is, indeed, ample room for national exultation at the names of Crecy, Poitiers, and Azincourt. So great was the disparity of numbers upon those famous...whenever ignorance or infatuation have not led them 1 The first instrument in which Edward disallows the title of Philip, is his convention with the emperor... | |
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