This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ...constant temptation to the reisters to desert their standards, and follow the victorious colours of the Duke d'Anjou. In this emergency Coligny at last resolved upon abandoning this part of the country altogether, and retiring into the south--where the great strength of the Hugonots lay--there to meet and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ...constant temptation to the reisters to desert their standards, and follow the victorious colours of the Duke d'Anjou. In this emergency Coligny at last resolved upon abandoning this part of the country altogether, and retiring into the south--where the great strength of the Hugonots lay--there to meet and collect such detached bodies of his partisans as might be scattered over the country, while he could amuse and satisfy his reisters by the plunder of some of the towns still held by the Catholics, and refresh himself in others possessed by the Protestants. Then, after wintering in the mountains, and allowing time for the Catholic army to expend its first vigour, he trusted to being able to open the campaign in the ensuing spring with his forces refreshed and strengthened, and by thus re-establishing his affairs, obtain the object of all his exertions--a just and well-secured peace.1 In consequence of this determination the whole of Poictou--with the exception of Niort, and Angoul&ne, and St. Jean d'Angeli--was of necessity abandoned to the enemy. 1 The motives whieh indueed his position. The intelligent author Coligny to undertake this mareh of of the observations in the Colleetion 400 leagues, and thus to oceupy des Memoires thus attempts to nine months'time, are very suceinetly make up the defieieney. " The pro-stated by Castlenau; and the loss vinces where he was about to take of the Admiral's own memoirs, as refiige, offered all the resourees of will be related in the sequel, have which he stood so greatly in need. eft it difficult quite to understand The young Prinees, in whose name he eommanded, were held there in the greatest consideration. Mont-gommeri, at the head of a body of vietorious troops, would unite with him, and restore...
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