ISBN: 1236180615

[EAN: 9781236180612], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], M. FRASER TYTLER,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 38 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book … More...

[EAN: 9781236180612], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], M. FRASER TYTLER,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 38 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: . . . more care, more expense, and more thought, than he had ever given to any undertaking by himself. After reaching Bordeaux, the Black Prince pursued his march; and victory followed every attack made by him on the towns and fortified castles on their route, till, in the course of a very short time, a number of the strongest and best garrisoned towns in France were subjected to the English by their conquering prince. The British army were now in the very middle of the French kingdom, when John, who had succeeded Philip on the throne of France, advanced to meet them, with a body of men sufficient to have crushed the band of the Black Prince. John pursued his march in the belief that the English army were in advance. The English prince was under the same error, for he supposed the French king to be in close pursuit of him; and knowing his band to be so inferior in numbers to that of the enemy, he wished for the present to defer the engagement. At last their mutual mistake was discovered, and it was known that John was in advance of the English army, who had now no chance of being able to avoid an engagement: there was nothing left for them, but to fight or yield themselves prisoners. The Black Prince wished to discover the real extent of the French army, and sent forward a small body of men, who were to pursue the enemy, and return to him with what intelligence they could gain. The information which they brought back was not very comforting: the French forces, they said, were more than eight times as numerous as their own. It did, indeed, appear hopeless attacking such a body of men; and the young prince saw well all the dangers that would accompany the undertaking, and the almost certainty of the total destruction of his little army, but he had no alternative, a. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

2012, ISBN: 1236180615

[EAN: 9781236180612], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing… More...

[EAN: 9781236180612], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: .more care, more expense, and more thought, than he had ever given to any undertaking by himself. After reaching Bordeaux, the Black Prince pursued his march; and victory followed every attack made by him on the towns and fortified castles on their route, till, in the course of a very short time, a number of the strongest and best garrisoned towns in France were subjected to the English by their conquering prince. The British army were now in the very middle of the French kingdom, when John, who had succeeded Philip on the throne of France, advanced to meet them, with a body of men sufficient to have crushed the band of the Black Prince. John pursued his march in the belief that the English army were in advance. The English prince was under the same error, for he supposed the French king to be in close pursuit of him; and knowing his band to be so inferior in numbers to that of the enemy, he wished for the present to defer the engagement. At last their mutual mistake was discovered, and it was known that John was in advance of the English army, who had now no chance of being able to avoid an engagement: there was nothing left for them, but to fight or yield themselves prisoners. The Black Prince wished to discover the real extent of the French army, and sent forward a small body of men, who were to pursue the enemy, and return to him with what intelligence they could gain. The information which they brought back was not very comforting: the French forces, they said, were more than eight times as numerous as their own. It did, indeed, appear hopeless attacking such a body of men; and the young prince saw well all the dangers that would accompany the undertaking, and the almost certainty of the total destruction of his little army, but he had no alternative, a.<

2012, ISBN: 1236180615

[EAN: 9781236180612], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing … More...

[EAN: 9781236180612], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: .more care, more expense, and more thought, than he had ever given to any undertaking by himself. After reaching Bordeaux, the Black Prince pursued his march; and victory followed every attack made by him on the towns and fortified castles on their route, till, in the course of a very short time, a number of the strongest and best garrisoned towns in France were subjected to the English by their conquering prince. The British army were now in the very middle of the French kingdom, when John, who had succeeded Philip on the throne of France, advanced to meet them, with a body of men sufficient to have crushed the band of the Black Prince. John pursued his march in the belief that the English army were in advance. The English prince was under the same error, for he supposed the French king to be in close pursuit of him; and knowing his band to be so inferior in numbers to that of the enemy, he wished for the present to defer the engagement. At last their mutual mistake was discovered, and it was known that John was in advance of the English army, who had now no chance of being able to avoid an engagement: there was nothing left for them, but to fight or yield themselves prisoners. The Black Prince wished to discover the real extent of the French army, and sent forward a small body of men, who were to pursue the enemy, and return to him with what intelligence they could gain. The information which they brought back was not very comforting: the French forces, they said, were more than eight times as numerous as their own. It did, indeed, appear hopeless attacking such a body of men; and the young prince saw well all the dangers that would accompany the undertaking, and the almost certainty of the total destruction of his little army, but he had no alternative, a.<