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