History of the Colby Family (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

James Waldo Colby

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332872689 ISBN 13 : 9781332872688

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2017

Synopsis

Excerpt from History of the Colby Family

When William was preparing for the invasion above mentioned, he gathered his knights, not only in France, but by publishing his war-ban in all Christendom. He offered a large sum of money and the pillage of England to every man of tall and robust stature who would serve either with the lance, the sword, or the cross-bow; and the adventurers came in throngs. Some wanted money some an estate, and some simply an English wife.
England was thus supplied with a new and Vigorous aristocracy.

Normandy, whence William came, was a kingdom in Northern France, peopled with an equally mixed race, of Jutes, Saxons, French, etc.; but the language was French.

The Britons and the Saxons had no weapons of dis tance. It was the long-bows of the Normans that won the Battle of Hastings. Spears and hurling-stones were of no avail. The Norman archers were for years the admiration of all Europe.

Still, the Saxons were no mean foe; and all the old nobility died beside their king before nine that night; and we are thus assured that the Colbys were not Sax ons.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332872689
• ISBN 13: 9781332872688
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 158
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