OR THE FIELD OF AGINCOURT. BY MAJOR MICHEL. IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. I. LONDON SAUNDERS AND Otley, CONDUIT STREET 1841. PREFACE. In the following pages the Author proposes to give an historical sketch of the five eventful years, commencing in 1415, as far as they are connected with the struggle between the rival houses of Valois and Lancaster for the throne of France. It is intended that the grand historical features should be faithfully delineated; and in those points only where history affords no certain light has the author adopted his own version of the story to be detailed. Wherever also the personages introduced are not fictitious, he has attempted to delineate their characters precisely as has done history. It was originally intended that the Earl of March, who was de jure Sovereign of England, should be the undoubted hero of the tale; but as it proceeded history forbad the untruth. Dead, as when living, Henry of England usurped the claim of precedence, and thus were these volumes entitled "HENRY Of MonMOUTH, OR THE FIELD OF AGINCOURT." |