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THE ANGEVINS 
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“Then,” said the king, “ return and tell those who sent you 
not to send ayain while my son lives, Command them to 
let the boy win his spurs!” . 
When the day of Cr6cy was over, the English army of 
less than thirty thousand 
had defeated the French 
army, more than three 
times as numerous, of 
whom ncarly a third were 
left dead on the field. 
The Scots, according to 
an agreement made with 
Philip, now invaded Eng- 
land, but they were de- 
feated at Neville’s Cross, 
and their king, David, 
Was carricd off to London, 
a Pprisoner, Meanwhile, 
Edward pushed on to 
Calais and besieged the 
town. "The brave defen- 
ders held out for a whole 
Year, and when they sur- , 
tendered in 1347, it was only because they were starving. 
Edward was so angry at the resistance he had met with, 
that he ordered six of the leading citizens to come to him 
With ropes about their necks. He intended to hang them, 
but his wife, Queen Philippa, begged so earnestly for their 
lives that he released them. He now drove from Calais 
the Frenchmen who refused to swear allegiance to him, 
and made it an English colony. "The cıty remained in the 
Pössession of England for over two hundred years. 
Edward offered to make peace if King John, who had 
Succeeded Philip, would give him the full sovereignty of 
Aquitaine; but this John refused to do. In 1355 the 
War was renewed and the Black Prince led a plunder- 
ing expedition through southern France. The next 
year he swept throuzi. central France and began his 
return march with eighi thousand men guarding his load 
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