| Sir James Mackintosh - 1830 - 414 páginas
...herself into a tower which served as a sort of citadel, where she held out till the arrival of John, who, on the night between the 31st of July and the 1st of August, 1202, compelled the besiegers to surrender. Not one knight of the duke of Britany's little army escaped... | |
| 1841 - 582 páginas
...fifteen besieging his grandmother of eighty, and an uncle besieging his nephew — all at one point. On the night between the 31st of July, and the 1st of August, the savage John, by means of treachery, got possession of the town. Not one knight of the duke of Brittany's... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1836 - 484 páginas
...herself into a tower which served as a sort of citadel, where she held out till the arrival of John, who, on the night between the 31st of July and the 1st of August, 1202, compelled the besiegers to surrender. Not one knight of the duke of Britany's little army escaped... | |
| 1844 - 588 páginas
...fifteen besieging his grandmother of eighty, and an uncle besieging his nephew — all at one point. On the night between the 31st of July and the 1st of August the savage John, by means of treachery, got possession of the town. Arthur was taken in his bed, as... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1845 - 530 páginas
...before Mirebeau, and had invested that town, ere his nephew was aware of his departure from Normandy. On the night between the 31st of July and the -1st of August the savage John, by means of treachery, got possession of the town. Arthur was taken in his bed, as... | |
| Gilbert Abbott À Beckett - 1847 - 364 páginas
...breastwork, she awaited the threatened lacing at the hands of her grandson, when John came to her rescue. In the night between the 31st of July and the 1st of August, he took the town, dragged Arthur out of his bed, as well as some two hundred nobles who were "hanging... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1856 - 524 páginas
...before Mirebeau, and had invested that town, ere his nephew was aware of his departure from Normandy. On the night between the 31st of July and the 1st of August the savage John, by means of treachery, got possession of the town. Arthur was taken in his bed, as... | |
| Sir Robert Thomas Wilson - 1860 - 490 páginas
...approached," being over zealous, deviated from his orders, and crossed at a ford near Dernowiczi in the night between the 31st of July and the 1st of August ; and urged forward by a first partial success, plunged suddenly upon the whole corps of Oudinot, awaiting... | |
| Gilbert Abbott À Beckett - 1864 - 692 páginas
...breastwork, she awaited the threatened lacing at the hands of her grandson, when John came to her rescue. In the night between the 31st of July and the 1st of August, he took the town, dragged Arthur out of his bed, as well as some two hundred nobles who were "hanging... | |
| François Pierre G. Guizot - 1873 - 654 páginas
...it; and a party, numerous and already growing in popularity, was being formed there in bis favour. Men of note, who were lately Marcel's comrades, were...day of the 31st of July Marcel would have changed tln. ' keepers of the St. Denis gate, but Maillart opposed him, rushed to the Hotel de Ville, seized... | |
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