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A History of the Battle of Bannockburn Fought A.d. 1314
A History of the Battle of Bannockburn Fought Ad 1314 Author:Robert White General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 Original Publisher: Edmonston and Douglas Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / Europe / General History / Europe / Great Britain History / Medieval Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Amer... more »ican / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This 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: CHAPTER III. LOCALITIES CONNECTED WITH THE BATTLE. When Edward came to vanquish Caledon, How did the Bruce contrive to stay the march Of England's mighty host ? Was the ground flat, Or hilly he selected, where his troops Drove back the fierce invaders and achieved Glory to Scotland, whereby every son Born in her bounds was henceforth to be free 1 Anon. When King Edward proceeded northward from Berwick with the whole martial strength of England, we learn from our most authentic chroniclers that no army of such magnitude had ever before crossed the Borders. Rejecting the account of one or two authors1 as undeserving of credit on that point, we may fairly estimate the number of the whole effective men to have been above one hundred thousand. Of these forty thousand were cavalry, including knights and men-at-arms, of whom more than a twelfth part had horses clothed in mail, who were intended to form the van in the field of battle.2 The archers are said to have num- 1 Major and Bellenden, who were followed partly by Bower, the continuator of Fordun. 2 ' Ane hundre thousand men and ma : And fourty thousand war of tha Armyt on hors, bath heid and hand. And off thai yeit war thre thousand, With helyt horss in plate and mailye, To mak the front off the ba...« less