Category: France

By David Nicolle

The conflict of Crecy was once the 1st significant land conflict of the Hundred Years struggle (1337-1453). It pitted the French military, then thought of the simplest in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies opposed to the English lower than King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who as but had no nice army acceptance; this was once the conflict the place he 'won his spurs'. The Genoese crossbowmen have been outshot by way of the English longbows and the trend used to be set for the remainder of the day: the French cavalry have been dedicated piecemeal in fruitless fees opposed to robust English positions, wasting possibly 10,000 males throughout the combating. After virtually a millennium within which cavalry had ruled the sphere of conflict, the infantryman, and especially the longbowman, now governed splendid.

By Sir John William Fortescue

Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent position among British army historians, his enduring popularity and legacy resting often on his life’s paintings “The historical past of the British Army”, issued in 20 volumes, which took him a few 30 years to accomplish. In scope and breadth it's such that no smooth student has tried to hide this sort of huge and various topic in its entirety; yet Sir John did so with aplomb, resulting in a readable and accomplished study.
According to Professor Emeritus of army heritage at King’s collage, Brian Bond, the paintings was once “the manufactured from indefatigable learn in unique files, a choice to provide a transparent, exact, and readable narrative of army operations, and a detailed own wisdom of the battlefields, which enabled him to explain his account with very good maps. most crucial, even if, was once his motivation: specifically, a lifelong affection for the outdated, long-service, pre-Cardwell military, the spirit of the regiments of which it mostly consisted, and the worth of its traditions to the kingdom. a tremendous a part of his job was once to distil and inculcate those soldierly virtues which, in his conservative view, contrasted sharply with the unedifying personality of politicians who habitually meddled in army matters.” ODNB.
This first quantity covers the interval from the conflict of Hastings in 1066 to the tip of the Seven Year’s battle in 1713. It contains the battles at Bannockburn, Crecy, Agincourt, Flodden, the battles of the English Civil struggle, Dunkirk Dunes, Tangiers, and the battles in the course of Marlborough’s campaigns. the amount additionally lines the advance of eu Armies, infantry, cavalry and artillery, and the explicit alterations in Britain through the period.
A needs to learn for any army enthusiast.
Author — Fortescue, J. W. Sir, 1859-1933.
Text taken, entire and whole, from the second one variation released in 1910, London, via Macmillan and Co.
Original web page count number – XXXV and 593 pages.
Illustrations — a variety of.

The superb lifetime of Margaret of York, the lady who attempted to overthrow the Tudors.

Reared in a deadly and unpredictable global Margaret of York, sister of Richard III, could turn into the traditional bearer of the home of York and ‘The threat of the Tudors’. This eye-catching and imaginitive ladies was once Henry VII’s ‘diabolical duchess’. secure around the Channel in modern day Belgium and supported by way of the Emperor she despatched Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck with millions of troops to England to avenge the destruction of her brother and of the home of York. either rebellions shook the recent Tudor dynasty to the core.

As the duchess and spouse of the wealthiest ruler in Western Europe, Margaret was once on the heart of a glittering courtroom and have become the consumer of William Caxton. It used to be at her command that he published the 1st publication in English. Her marriage to Charles, the dour, war-mad Duke of Burgundy, were the controversy of Europe. John Paston, who was once one of the awe struck site visitors, stated within the well-known Paston Letters that there have been not anything love it given that King Arthur’ court docket. but inside a decade Charles was once useless, his corpse frozen at the battlefield and inside one other decade her family have been destroyed in England. Childless and in a international land Margaret confirmed a similar full of life and wary spirit as her great-grand-niece Elizabeth I, surviving riots, rebellions and plots. regardless of all her efforts, the Tudors have been nonetheless at the throne yet Margaret, in contrast to the Yorkist kings, was once an exceptional survivor.

The first volumes of the Correspondance générale d'Helvétius encouraged overseas acclaim. Now the 3rd quantity deals us extra perception right into a number of elements of existence in eighteenth-century France.

Claude-Adrian Helvétius (1715-71) used to be a prosperous and high-ranking member of French society. He was once conversant in the best political and social figures of his time and, via relatives, with the court docket and executive which he sometimes served in a diplomatic skill. thinker, encyclopedist, and writer of the explosive De l'Esprit, he and his spouse, Anne Catherine de Ligneville, corresponded with the good and influential all through Europe.

The letters during this quantity have been written among 1761 and 1774, a interval during which Helvétius loved the end result of his status, travelled to England (1764) and Prussia (1765), and produced books, Le Bonheur and De l'homme, which have been released after his death.

By Robert J. Young

Vous n'avez plus que de vagues souvenirs de vos cours d'histoire ? Et encore, ceux qui vous restent tiennent davantage des moqueries lancées à cette vieille prof barbante qu'aux dates importantes de notre can pay ? Vous êtes intimidé dès que vous entendez une personne cultivée s'exprimer ? L'histoire vous dresses mais vous ne savez pas par quel bout commencer ? Alors ce livre est fait pour vous !

L'Histoire de France pour les Nuls va vous réconcilier avec l'histoire en vous présentant les étapes-clés de façon claire, attrayante et ludique. Vous verrez, on peut rire tout en apprenant. Et puis pas de contrôle à l'horizon : on apprend pour le plaisir !

Dans cette model illustrée, vous trouverez les plus grands événements de l'histoire française illustrés par 2 hundred gravures, peintures et photographies, ainsi que forty dessins de Chaunu, spécialement colorisés pour cette édition : l'histoire de France n'aura plus de mystery pour vous !

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Whereas Napoleon ready his military, at the coast of France, for an invasion of britain that might by no means come, Russia and Austria ready to maneuver opposed to his rear. Napoleon became at the allies and overwhelmed them in a single of history's maximum campaigns. the next 12 months, he met the mythical military of Frederick the nice and annihilated it thoroughly. The yr after it was once Russia's flip back, and even though the northern wintry weather used to be the foremost foe, it could possibly no longer retailer the Tsar. the area, and struggle, may by no means be an identical back. The Empires of Russia, Austria, Prussia and Britain weren't vulnerable. How had Napoleon performed this? Why have been his equipment, and his military, diversified?