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History of the English People, Volume III (of 8)

CHAPTER V
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The break did little indeed to check the desultory hostilities which were going on.

A Breton fleet made descents on Portland and Dartmouth.

The Count of Armagnac, the strongest supporter of Orleans and the war party, led troops against the frontier of Guienne.

But the weakness of France and the exhaustion of its treasury prevented any formal denunciation of the truce or declaration of war.
Though Henry could spare not a soldier for Guienne Armagnac did little hurt.

An English fleet repaid the ravages of the Bretons by harrying the coast of Britanny; and the turn of French politics soon gave Frenchmen too much work at home to spare men for work abroad.


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