By Rene Chartrand, René Chartrand, Bill Younghusband
This quantity – masking the ultimate years of the Peninsular warfare (1808-1814) and the lengthy trek over the Pyrenees into France – concludes the author's notable in-depth research of the military that fought along Wellington's redcoats in the course of the Peninsular battle. ahead of 1813 it used to be the Spanish armies that bore the brunt of the struggling with and this article – in response to basic learn in Spanish and British records with a purpose to be new to so much readers – fills a wide and long-standing hole in our wisdom of these Napoleonic campaigns that have regularly interested English-speaking scholars of the interval.
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73 Beaucourt, 3, pp. 46–7. Lecoy de la Marche made light of the affair, René, I, pp. 130–1. 74 Basin, Charles VII, 1, p. 179. Anjou, Bar, Lorraine and Provence 33 the adolescent pawn of his great uncle and his father-in-law until the late 1420s. No sooner had they died than he launched on the campaign to secure Lorraine for himself and his wife that ended in his imprisonment. The long negotiations for his release and the draconian financial penalties exacted by Burgundy have already been discussed.
Vale, Charles VII, pp. 35–9. It was a considerable achievement to detach Richemont from Burgundy as he was married to duke Philip’s sister Marguerite, duchess of Guyenne. 39 Monstrelet, 4, pp. 184–5, 199–205; Jean de Waurin, Recueil des croniques et anchiennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, ed. W. P. Hardy, 6 vols (London: 1864–91) 5, pp. 96–7. 40 R. Planchenault, ‘La Conquête du Maine par les Anglais: la campagne de 1424–1425’, Revue historique et archéologique du Maine, 81 (1925): 3–31. A. Griffiths, The Reign of Henry VI: the Exercise of Royal Authority, 1422–1461 (London: 1981) pp.
Contamine (Paris: 1999) pp. 81–98. 17 Beaucourt, 3, p. 45. 18 M. Aurell, ‘Conclusion’, Autour de Marguerite d’Écosse, p. 229. 19 Orliac, p. 58. , pp. 119, 134–5. 21 By the time he wrote, Anjou was ruled by the kings of France so he presumably would derive no personal gain from doing so. He was also in a good position to recover local memories and opinions of the queen and her son. The enormous amount of patriotic fervour, supported by mountains of scholarship, devoted to the phenomenon of Joan of Arc has tended to obscure the contribution made by Yolande to the recovery of France.