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... enemy to the State ; and that no peace should be concluded with him without the consent of the contracting parties.1 This was hard measure for the young Prince ; but various causes had combined to create for him powerful enemies in ...
... enemy to the State ; and that no peace should be concluded with him without the consent of the contracting parties.1 This was hard measure for the young Prince ; but various causes had combined to create for him powerful enemies in ...
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... enemy of France . Poor Charles was therefore obliged to return to the camp of his son - in- law ( who managed him in all things just as he pleased ) , and there he remained for some weeks . ' Not indeed , ' says the chronicler , with ...
... enemy of France . Poor Charles was therefore obliged to return to the camp of his son - in- law ( who managed him in all things just as he pleased ) , and there he remained for some weeks . ' Not indeed , ' says the chronicler , with ...
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... enemies would not be slow to find a pretext for giving him a lodgment . therein , was much too wise to answer such a summons ; he neither went himself , nor sent any one to reply to the appellant . He was therefore deemed contumacious ...
... enemies would not be slow to find a pretext for giving him a lodgment . therein , was much too wise to answer such a summons ; he neither went himself , nor sent any one to reply to the appellant . He was therefore deemed contumacious ...
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... enemies that town being his usual place of residence . Now began the serious strife of arms ; Bedford for his nephew , Charles for himself . And at this period , in almost every engagement or circumstance of the contest , Charles was ...
... enemies that town being his usual place of residence . Now began the serious strife of arms ; Bedford for his nephew , Charles for himself . And at this period , in almost every engagement or circumstance of the contest , Charles was ...
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... enemy , more especially when engaged in pursuit . In that fatal field , overmatched by the greater skill and steady valour of the English , the headlong impetuosity of the French Princes , Orleans , Bourbon , and others , could not turn ...
... enemy , more especially when engaged in pursuit . In that fatal field , overmatched by the greater skill and steady valour of the English , the headlong impetuosity of the French Princes , Orleans , Bourbon , and others , could not turn ...
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Joan of Arc, and the Times of Charles the Seventh Anna Eliza Bray,Jeanne D' Arc No preview available - 2016 |
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