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The Battle of Agincourt (Historical Novel)
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter I. A Feudal Castle
Chapter II. Troubles In France
Chapter III. A Siege
Chapter IV. A Fatal Accident
Chapter V. Hostages
Chapter VI. In Paris
Chapter VII. In The Streets Of Paris
Chapter VIII. A Riot
Chapter IX. A Stout Defence
Chapter X. After The Fray
Chapter XI. Danger Threatened
Chapter XII. In Hiding
Chapter XIII. The Masters Of Paris
Chapter XIV. Planning Massacre
Chapter XV. A Rescue
Chapter XVI. The Escape
Chapter XVII. A Long Pause
Chapter XVIII. Katarina
Chapter XIX. Agincourt
Chapter XX. Penshurst
G. A. Henty
A Tale of the White Hoods of Paris
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Next to this room was the knight's sleeping apartment, or closet as it was then called, a room which would now be considered of ridiculously straitened dimensions; and close to it were the still smaller closets of the children. Beyond were a series of guest-chambers. Another side of the court-yard contained the apartments of the castellan, Jean Bouvard, a sturdy soldier of long experience, and those of the other officers of the household; the other two sides were occupied by the chapel, the kitchens, and the offices of the servants and retainers. All these rooms were loopholed on the side looking into the outer court. This was considerably wider and more extensive than the one surrounding the keep. Here were the stables, storehouses for grain and forage, and a building, just erected, for the lodging of the English garrison. All these buildings stood against the outer wall, so that they would afford no shelter to an enemy who had obtained possession of the first defences and was making an attack against the second line. The outer wall was twelve feet in thickness, and thirty feet above the court; outside the height was considerably greater, as there was a moat faced with stone fifteen feet deep entirely surrounding it, and containing seven or eight feet of water.
Walls ran half across the outer court, and, from the end of these, light wooden bridges formed a communication with the wall of the inner court, so that in the event of the outer wall being stormed or the gates being carried by assault, the defenders could retire to the inner defences. The ends of these bridges rested upon irons projecting from the wall, and so arranged that they could be instantly withdrawn when the last of the defenders had crossed over, when the bridges would at once fall into the court-yard below. The inner wall was twelve feet higher than the outer one, and, like it, was provided with a crenellated battlement four feet high; there were projecting turrets at each corner, and one in the middle of each side.
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