The Percy Anecdotes Original and Select (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select Armies of fearful harts will scorn to yield, If lions be their captains in the field. Alleyn. Francis I. Of France had not reached his twentieth year, when he was present at the celebrated battle of Marignan, which lasted two days. The Marshal de Trivulce, who had been in eighteen pitched battles, said, that those were the play of infants; but that this of Marignan was the combat of giants. Francis performed on this occasion prodigies of valour he fought less as a king than as a soldier. Having per ceived a standard-bearer surrounded by the enemy, he precipitated himself to his assistance in the midst of lances and halberts. He was presently surrounded his horse pierced with several wounds and his casque despoiled of its plumes. He must have been inevi tably overwhelmed, if a body of troops detached from the allies had not hastened to his succour. Francis hazarded this battle against the advice of his generals and cut short all remonstrance by the celebrated ex pression, which became afterwards proverbial, Let him that loves me, follow me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.