Under King Henry's Banners: A story of the days of Agincourt

It was an unwonted sight that met the eyes of the burghers of Harfleur on the morning of the 14th day of August, 1415. From the Rade de Caen to the Rade de Havre the estuary of...

The English army had crossed the Somme at a distance of more than sixty miles from the ford of Blanche-Taque, where Edward III had made his bold stroke eighty years previously....

"A scurvy trick hast thou played on me," exclaimed Ratclyffe when the amused soldiers had released him from his bonds. "By the Rood I'll think twice ere I venture again into the...

Judging by the grimly exultant expressions on the faces of the men, the expedition was a popular one. The Warblington men were well aware of the hardships their master and his s...

About three months after this event the captives were aroused from their sleep by the door of their prison being thrown open. Accompanied by four men-at-arms was Sir Denis de Va...

The realization of his two great hopes—the return of Sir Raoul from the French capital, and the expected invasion by King Henry—seemed too uncertain. The feast of St. Silvester—...

The alarming news that an attack was being made on the rear quickly spread, and from all parts of the field knights, men-at-arms and archers came running towards the Royal Stand...

Ere the camp was fully astir, for the war-worn soldiers were thoroughly enjoying their hard-earned rest, forty men-at-arms of Sir John Carberry's command formed up on an open st...

Aghast at the disconcerting discovery that the Castle of Taillemartel was in hostile hands, the lads stood in dire perplexity. The one refuge on French soil which they had relie...

Both lads were lightly accoutred, their armour having been sent on with the baggage train, and in high spirits they cantered their steeds along the stretch of grass that bordere...

Sir Thomas Carberry was as good as his word. He rode over to Warblington betimes on the following morning, where he was welcomed by the châtelaine and her assembled household.

It was shortly after dawn, on the morning of March 21, 1413, that a grizzled man-at-arms climbed the spiral staircase in the south-west angle of the keep of Warblington Castle.

All that night a heavy cannonade was directed against the doomed town in order to prepare the way for the grand assault. But ere the latter was delivered the Lord of Gaucourt se...

That night the victorious troops spent in possession of the captured castle. Sir Oliver and Sir Thomas Carberry were brought within the fortress, and every possible care was bes...

In a few moments the lads had donned their cloaks, girded on their swords—since none of quality ever ventured upon the highway save with a weapon ready to hand—and given orders...

"Nay, there is little cause to trouble concerning Sir Oliver," remarked the man-at-arms in answer to Geoffrey's anxious question. "He is safe and well cared for, though a prison...

There were merchants from Rouen, soberly attired and wearing long straight swords as a protection against the perils of the roads; peasants of both sexes, striving to overcome t...

With one accord the spectators made towards the gate, shouting and jostling in their haste to leave the scene of the tragedy. Many were the glances cast askance at the mangled h...

The three lads had little time to spend at Harfleur. That walled town, had Geoffrey but known, was to play an important part in his career, but being ignorant of the future he m...

Here would be seen a "Burgundian mitre"—the scorched and blackened gables of a partially demolished cottage; there the corpse of some unfortunate peasant dangling from the withe...

Next morning a dense fog hung over the valley of the Seine, so that it was impossible to see across to the opposite bank. Nevertheless, the Englishmen were anxious to resume the...

Early on the morning of the first day of August Sir Thomas Carberry, accompanied by his two squires and Oswald, waited upon the King at his lodging in the High Street of Southam...

"Have a care, gossip, or thine ears will suffer for it," remonstrated a bearded master-archer. "Boys will be boys, they say. Perchance our King has put off all his ill-deeds."

Although Henry V had left the shores of France without having concluded a treaty with his defeated foes, hostilities were practically suspended for a space of nearly two years....

"I have not been brought up to the sea these last six years for nothing, monsieur," replied the fisher-lad. "In my mind I can feel the coming storm. Moreover, did not Père Gobin...

The Lady Bertha had warmly welcomed her son, whom she had almost given up as lost. Concerning Sir Oliver her anxieties were greatly relieved, since she now knew that he had effe...

Reaching the summit of the cliff they turned to gaze upon the scene of their shipwreck. Far below them the crowd of wreckers and fishermen seemed like a swarm of ants as they fl...

"Though we have not Sir Yves in our hands, we have not fared badly," said Arnold Gripwell, as they hurried off to muster the men of Taillemartel, leaving the son of Sir Yves in...

A roar of merriment, mingled with a few cries of shame and pity, greeted the English knight's reappearance in the lists. Clad in an ill-fitting suit of chain mail with breastpla...