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The Remarkable Adventures of Celebrated Persons
The Remarkable Adventures of Celebrated Persons Author:Robert Sears Subtitle: Embracing the Romantic Incidents and Adventures in the Lives of Sovereigns, Queens, Generals, Princes, Travellers, Warriors, Adventurers, Voyagers, Etc., Eminent in the History of Europe and America General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1855 Original Publisher: Robert Sears Subjects: Biography Notes: This... more » is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: EDWARD -- THE BLACK PRINCE. On the 15th of June, 1330, this renowned prince was born, much to the great joy of the people of England. In his thirteenth year he was created Prince of Wales. During the next three years, he was chiefly occupied in the practice of arms, by acquiring that skill in their use, and those powers of endurance, which were so necessary for the laborious and hazardous life of a knight in the days of chivalry. When sixteen, he accompanied his father to France, and there soon saw in reality those scenes which the tournament was but a sportive mockery. Several battles were fought in which the young prince shared; and the English army advanced into the interior of the country by some of the most daring and successful marches on record in the annals of warfare. At length, they encamped in a forest, in the vicinity of the French army, which was immensely superior in numbers. Here ensued the celebrated BATTLE OF CRESSY, fought on the plain adjoining the town of that name. The plan being drawn out by the king and his counsellors, he, as the greatest and most chivalrous favor he could confer, determined to yield the place of danger and of honor to the prince, and, in bis own words, " to let the day be his." To ensure his success, most of the famous knights were placed in the division which the Black Prince (as he was now called fr...« less