So long as that feeling generally exists, so long as there is, as it were, a wide chasm between the two classes, as there has always existed in France, it would be unwise perhaps for one of the upper to admit that in any respect there could be any equality between them; but this is not so in England, where a certain equality has always been allowed to exist.

The Englishman of all ranks has a certain feeling of self-respect and independence, and the result is shown in the history of the wars which have been fought between the two nations.
"France in early days always relied upon her chivalry.

The horde of footmen she placed in the field counted for little.

England, upon the other hand, relied principally upon her archers and her pikemen, and it must be admitted that they beat us handsomely.

Then again in the wars in Flanders, under the English general Marlborough their infantry always proved themselves superior to ours.