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SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND


By G. A. Henty






CONTENTS


PREFACE.


CHAPTER I:   A WAYFARER

CHAPTER II:   THE HUT IN THE MARSHES

CHAPTER III:   A THWARTED PLOT

CHAPTER IV:   A KNIGHT'S CHAIN

CHAPTER V:   THE CITY GAMES

CHAPTER VI:   THE MELEE

CHAPTER VII:   THE YOUNG ESQUIRE

CHAPTER VIII:   OFF TO THE WARS

CHAPTER IX:   THE SIEGE OF HENNEBON

CHAPTER X:   A PLACE OF REFUGE

CHAPTER XI:   A STORMY INTERVIEW

CHAPTER XII:   JACOB VAN ARTEVELDE

CHAPTER XIII:   THE WHITE FORD

CHAPTER XIV:   CRESSY

CHAPTER XV:   THE SIEGE OF A FORTALICE

CHAPTER XVI:   A PRISONER

CHAPTER XVII:   THE CAPTURE OF CALAIS

CHAPTER XVIII:      THE BLACK DEATH

CHAPTER XIX:   BY LAND AND SEA

CHAPTER XX:   POITIERS

CHAPTER XXI:   THE JACQUERIE

CHAPTER XXII:   VICTORY AND DEATH






PREFACE.

MY DEAR LADS,

You may be told perhaps that there is no good to be obtained from tales of fighting and bloodshed,—that there is no moral to be drawn from such histories. Believe it not. War has its lessons as well as Peace. You will learn from tales like this that determination and enthusiasm can accomplish marvels, that true courage is generally accompanied by magnanimity and gentleness, and that if not in itself the very highest of virtues, it is the parent of almost all the others, since but few of them can be practised without it. The courage of our forefathers has created the greatest empire in the world around a small and in itself insignificant island; if this empire is ever lost, it will be by the cowardice of their descendants.

At no period of her history did England stand so high in the eyes of Europe as in the time whose events are recorded in this volume. A chivalrous king and an even more chivalrous prince had infected the whole people with their martial spirit, and the result was that their armies were for a time invincible, and the most astonishing successes were gained against numbers which would appear overwhelming. The victories of Cressy and Poitiers may be t

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