Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1929, Page 100

KNIGHT OF THE . 4 CENTURY. — FAu 328 A.D, WHEN KING CHARLES oF FRANCE DIED, HIS CLOSEST HEIR WAS HIS SISTERS SON, EPWARD TIL RINGOF ENGLAND. EbWARD PROMPTLY ASSERTED HIS CLAIM To THE FRENCH THRONE, BUT THE FRENCH, UNWILLING TO BE RULED BY AN ENGLISHMAN, CHOSE PHILIP OF VALOIS FOR THEIR KING. AT THAT TIME EDWARD WAS A MERE BOY BUT AFTER HE HAD GROWN TO MANHOOP HE PREPARED Jo PRESS HIS CLAIM BY. FORCE OF AMS. THUS BEGAN THE SO-CALED *HUNDRED YEARS WAR" — © 1 THE FIRST CRUDE CANNONE WERE INACCURATE AND INEFFECTIVE, — ROUND STONES WERE FIRST USED FOR CANKNON BALLS. i T /) muou,usep FOR THE FIRST TIME IN BATTLE BY THE ENGLISH AT CRECY, ARE SAID TO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE OVERWHMELM- ING DEFEAT OF THE FRENCH, — - Blix proMINENT BURGHERS NOBLY VOLUNTEERED 0 CARRY THE KEVS OF “THE CITY TO THE ENGLISH KING, WHILE UPON THEE WALLS OF CALAIS THE TOWNS- FOLK WEPT 7O SEE THEM GO, —* BTSN ST 0 SRR "BovaL Anms oF EDWARD TIL oF ENGLAND 0 T o e MIAP SHOWING ENGLISH 3 % = i - FRANCE WITH THE LIONS |E . FQANCE'34 e Chapter CXVII: ‘| ORDERED THEM To BE BEHEADED AT ONCE, b =] INVASION O = By 346 EDWAR]> INVADED FRANCE. AFTER DEVASTATING NORMANDY AND THREATENING PARIS,HE TURNE] NORTH: WARD 70 CRECY WHERE HE WAS ATTACKED BY A FRENCH HOST Lep BY KING PHILIP (AUGUST 26,1346). EoLiowma His victory AT CRECY, THE ENGLISH IXING MOVED NORTHWARD AND LAID SIEGE TO CALAIS, AN IM- PORTANT FRENCH TOWN THAT LAY JusT ACROSS THE STRAIT. FRoM DoOVER, CERTAIN PEATH, PRESENTED THEMSELVES BEFORE THE ENGLISH MONARCH, AND SURRENDERED THE IKEYS OF CALAIS TO HIM, EAGER FOR REVENGE, EDWARD The Batfl:;)f Crécy a;r h Bu U rrencH, areADY TIRED BY A LONG MARCH,BEGAN THE BATTLE WiTHouT APLAN. GROUPS OF ARMORED FRENCH KMIGHTS SPURRED FORWARD AT RANDOM ONLY TO BE IMPALE] UPON THE HEDGE OF ENGLISH SPEARS. FTER HEROICALLY DEFENDING THE CITY FOR A YEAR,THE PEOPLE OF CALAIS WERE DRIVEN BY HUNGER TO ASK TERMS OF SURRENDER . EPWARD, ENRAGED BY THEIR LONG RESISTANCE , SWORE HE WOULD> PUT EVERY MAN, WOMAN AN CHILD IN CALAIS TO THE SWORD, — HE MEADSMAN WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN HIS GRIM WORK WHEN EDWARDS WIFE,THE FAIR QUEEN PHILIPPA, SUDDENLY KNELT BEFORE THE KING AND IMPLORED HIM TO SPARE THE LIVES OF THE BRAVE BURGHERS. = By J. CARROLL MANSFIELD BIEANWHILE, THE ENGLISH ARCHERS, POSTED ON RISING GROUND;SHOTCLOUDS OF ARROWS INTO THE DIENSE MASSES OF THE FRENCH, THROWING THEM INTO CON- FUSION AND, FINALLY, DRIVING THEM FROM THE FIELD WITH TERRIBLE SIAUGHTER. 74 ElsuAPEP FROM THIS CRUEL PURPOSE BY HIS ADVISORS, EDWARP SENT WOoRP> 7O THEE PEOPLE OF CALAIS THAT HE WOULD SPARE THEM IF SIX CITIZENS WOULD COMETO HIM, CLAD ONLY IN THEIR SHIRTS,WITH ROPES AROUND THEIR NECKS, BEARING THE KEYS OF CALAIS AND YIELD THEMSELVES TO HIS VENGEANCE. —*° move> BY HIS WIFES PLEA,EDWARD RELGNTED. THE BURGHERS WEREE SET FREE AND SENT HOME WITH SUMPTUOUS GIFTS. THE NEXT DAY THE ENGLISH TOOK PQSSESSION OF THE CITY. CALAIS REMAINED IN THE HANDS OF l THE ENGLISH FOR TWO CENTURIES . o