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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ngly to his soldiers; and well did he keep his boast, for the white plume wasever in the van. The charges of his horsemen were as reckless as those of the French chiv-alry of old, only now a marvellous, keen eye directed their course, a wonderful,firm hand held them in leash until the supreme moment for assault. At theclose of that glorious charge at Ivry, Henry turned aside and, with only thirtyhorsemen at his back, dashed against two whole regiments of the foreign au.xil-iaries of the Leaguers. It looked like suicide; but the flight of their allies hadalready shaken these strangers, and instead of facing Henry, they turned theirbacks and scurried off like sheep, to be slain with the rest. Once in later days, Henry charged with a handful of men against the wholeSpanish army under the command of the Duke of Parma, the ablest general ofthe age, abler in tactics at least than Henry himself. Yet Henry and his littleband cut their way out in safety. When reproached for letting him escape,
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■*cy THE LATER KINGS OF FRANCE Charles VIII. Louis XVI. Louis XII. Louis XV. John II. Charles V. s I. Henry IV. Henry III. Henry IL Francis II. Charles VII. Charles X. Louis Philippe Louis XVIII. France—End of the Religious Wars 875 Farma answered: I supposed I was matched against a great general, leadingan army. How could I know he had turned into a reckless swashbuckler? But the reckless swashbuckler won the love of France, as, perhaps, thegreat general never could. All over the land men began to glory in the gloriesof Henry. Admiration and patriotism rose above faction, and men sighed, Ah ! if he were only a Catholic! As he had so often done before, Henrysaw and seized the supreme moment of victory. He became a Catholic (1593)- To discuss laboriously the sincerity of his conversion is a piece of folly. Paris is worth a Mass, he is reported to have said; and if he did not actuallyuse the words, there is no question that the spirit of them was his. Many ofthe noblest men in Henry

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