At Agincourt

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The long and bloody feud between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy—­which
for many years devastated France, caused a prodigious destruction of life
and property, and was not even relaxed in the presence of a common enemy—­
is very fully recorded in the pages of Monstrellet and other contemporary
historians.  I have here only attempted to relate the events of the early
portion of the struggle—­from its commencement up to the astonishing
victory of Agincourt, won by a handful of Englishmen over the chivalry of
France.  Here the two factions, with the exception of the Duke of Burgundy
himself, laid aside their differences for the moment, only to renew them
while France still lay prostrate at the feet of the English conqueror.