 The troops which they conducted were inured to war, and were determined to make the most obstinate resistance ; and even the inhabitants, disciplined by the long continuance of hostilities, were well qualified, in their own defence, to second the efforts...  Joan of Arc, an epic poem - Sida 17efter Robert Southey - 1798Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Patrick Francis Moran - 1890 - 318 sidor
...had more than once proved the bulwark of France, was marked out for inevitable ruin. Hume writes that "the eyes of all Europe were turned towards this scene,...their monarchy and the rights of their sovereign." M There was no longer a French army in the field, and there was hardly a general to command an army.... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 488 sidor
...begin the siege of Orleans. CHAPTER IX. JOAN OF ARC'S VICTORY OVER THE ENGLISH AT ORLEANS, AD 1429. " The eyes of all Europe were turned towards this scene,...their monarchy and the rights of their sovereign." — HUME. WHEN, after their victory at Salamis, the generals of the various Greek states voted the... | |
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