At Coucy’s level, men and women hawked and hunted and carried a favorite falcon, hooded, on the wrist wherever they went, indoors or out—to church, to the assizes, to meals. On occasion, huge pastries...
Armed forces were no longer primarily feudal levies serving under a vassal’s obligation who went home after forty days; they were recruited bodies who served for pay.
Adams, not yet replaced, repeated that the arrogant English were treating Amsterdam exactly as they had Boston. With that fatal gift for the unlearned lesson, the produced the same result - unity agai...
The French, who had put large expectations in the abasement of Britain that American success would cause, had been disappointed by the weakness of the American military effort. Instead of an aggressiv...