At Agincourt

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Henty George Alfred. At Agincourt

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

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"And is it true that our lord and lady sail next week for their estate in France?"

"Ay, it is true enough, and more is the pity; it was a sad day for us all when the king gave the hand of his ward, our lady, to this baron of Artois."

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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 The ends of these bridges rested upon irons projecting from the wall, and so arranged that they could be instantly withdrawn when the last of the defenders had crossed over, when the bridges would at once fall into the court-yard below.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.

The keep rose twenty feet higher than the wall of the inner court. The lower portions of the cross walls of the outer court were carried on as far as the inner wall, thereby dividing the space into four; strong gates gave communication from one to the other. Into these could be driven the cattle of the tenantry, and one of them contained a number of huts in which the tenants themselves would be lodged. The court-yard facing the entrance was the largest of the areas into which the space between the outer and inner walls was divided, extending the whole width between the outer walls. Here the military exercises were carried on. Along the wall, at each side of the gate, were a range of stables for the use of the horses of guests, with rooms over them for the use of their retainers. There was a strong exterior work defending the approach to the drawbridge on the other side of the moat, and in all respects the castle was well appointed, and to Guy it seemed almost impossible that it could be carried by assault, however numerous the foe.

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