Identifier: shorthistoryofen00lars (find matches)
Title: A short history of England and the British Empire
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938
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Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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that the Enslish- 1435. Bedford committed the imprudence of his Dutch marriage. Philip the Good began to tire of a war that was going against his allies. After a fruitless effort to secure a general peace, the duke of Burgundy made a separate peace with Charles VII (1435). Bedford had died a few months earlier and no capable leader was ready to, take his place; but English pride would not permit a retreat, and so the hopeless war continued. At the same time there was a powerful peace party in England that was anxious to end the war. Finally, ten years after Bedfords death, this party came into control of the English government and arranged a truce with France. . . Henry VIs Among the provisions was an agreement on marriage to Henrys-part to marry Margaret of Anjou, a French Margaret of princess fifteen years of age, whose family was conspicuous chiefly for its poverty. The arrangement was unsatisfactory to the majority in the nation and the truce i94 FIFTEENTH CENTURY: THE RENAISSANCE
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Fifteenth Century ArtilleryFrom a manuscript of The Chronicles of England (fifteenth century). RIVALRY OF MARGARET AND RICHARD YORK 195 was unpopular. Soon the war flared up again on the Nor-man frontier and later in Gascony. The English sustainedrepeated defeats; and in 1453 they finally retiredfrom France, though Calais was retained foranother century. 173. The Rivalry of Margaret and Richard of York.Two years later began a series of civil wars which continuedwith intermittent periods for sixteen years. Later writers, be-lieving that the Yorkist line had adopted the white rose and thehouse of Lancaster the red rose as a family emblem, called theseduels the Wars of the Roses ; it seems, however, that the redrose was first used as a dynastic emblem by the Tudors. Thewars were fought for the possession of the English crown. Thepeace with France was a terrible blow to English pride, whichcould not forget Crecy and Agincourt; and Queen Margaretand her advisers were exceedingly unpopular.

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