Identifier: ridpathshist03ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations
Year: 1800 (1800s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnatti : The Jones brothers New York : Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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cognize among hisassailants. But the English soldiers were littledisposed to recognize the claim of the recreantFrenchman to so grand a prize. A disputearose over the prisoners and violence was aboutto decide the quarrel, when the Earl of War-wick came on the scene and led away thecaptives to the Black Princes tent. Whatever chivalry the English characterpossessed was brought into requisition in thetreatment accorded the captives. Nor didPrince Edward show himself deficient in thebest virtues of his age. He treated the fallenroyalty with every mark of respect, conductedthe crestfallen king and his .son to Bordeaux,and thence to England. Here John and thePrince Philip were received with whatever 58 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. favor might be shown to captives, aud weredetained by their captors as guests rather thanas prisoners for a period of four years. AVhen it was known that the king who.taken, the government of the realm was con-ferred on the Dauphin. This prince, though-
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CAPTURE OF JOHN II. AT IOITIERS.DrawD bi A. de Neuville PEOPLE AND KINGS.—FRANCE IN 14TH AND 15TH CENTURIES. 59 not wanting in large native abilities, was■without the experience necessary to the rulerof such a kingdom as France in times of suchemergency. Nor were the counselors whosurrounded him more fit to guide the ship ofstate through the tempestuous sea. Besetwith many difficulties, the Dauphin adoptedplans which he could not execute, and madepromises which he could not fulfill. The dis-tress of the kingdom became extreme, and thedistraction of the realm was augmented by theconduct of the nobles, who, utterly iudiflerentto the general welfare, sought each in his ownway to build anew the fortunes of Feudalismon the ruins of the monarchy. Great werethe cruelties which the unprincipled baronspracticed upon the serfs and peasants ofFrance. It happened, however, under the changedand changing spirit of the age that the newfact called the People was no longer to beignored—no longer

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