Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-02-02

0y Tue DWtSS. nus eptSOue uhU tHe
destruction of the Burgundian army
are q fine part Of Sir Walter SCOTS
Anne of Geierstein."
Charles the Bold, ruler Of Burgundy
and Flanders, duke of seven dukedoms,
count Of seventeen earldoms, was at
the summit of his eminence. In his
grip he crushed the estates of Bur
gundy and Flanders. He was invad
ing Lorraine and already had added
10 his titles that of duke of Lorraine.
He menaced great Louis of France and
boasted openly that he would nail the
hide of the old fox to stable door.
He was bargaining with Margaret of
Anjou for the lovely kingdom of Pro-
vence, ruled by her mild old father.
Good King Rene, in exchange for
which he promised to make war in
England on the house Of York and re-
establish Margaret's house of Lancas-
ter. And with all these affairs on his
hands he turned lightly. as to an ex-
cursion, to make war on the Swiss.
In vain did the duke of Oxford, who
was in his camp as Margaret's envoy,
advise him that these rough noun
taineers wera baars who might vol,
ruin all his greater plans. He roared
with fury at the intimation that his
chivalry Of Burgundy, his mailclad
mercenaries from all Europe. and his
new and wonderful fire-spitting can
non might fail to annihilate the Swiss,
who fought on foot with arrows and
mammoth, clumsy, two-handed swords.
He said to the Swiss deputation that
had come to beg for peace:
n depuknflon Of your mat notahle
persons who shall n66t ne d YIN
fropf<e.s W4t6 s.elters nlound their
necks ana their 6Wordb Held BY the
points, may learn from me on what
"Then farewell, peace, and welcome
war;" said the undaunted Swiss dele
gates. 1--WE will meet you on our from
tiers with our naked swords, but the
hits, not the points, shall be in our
grasp. Charles of Burgundy, we bid
you defiance, and declare war against
you I'm the name Of the Confederated
Cantons"
Nargaret's nephew. Ferrand de
Vaudemont, whose heritage was the
dukedom of Lorraine. ioined with the
Swiss. Charles laughed when he heard
II. "On to Neuchatel :" he said. 1--WE
will teach these beggarly peasants n
lessonr"
AT Gronson. near the preot lake Of
N.rcboto, tho boccorI, nooSon+S
caught Burgundy's army in n narrow
pass and so fell on II from all sides
that by nightfall the shining host was
in mortifying flight.
The check merely infuriated Charles
Before midsummer of the next wear he
had ready q new army Of at least sixty
thousand mon with one hundred and
fifty pieces of cannon. They entered
the land of the Swiss. who had called
on the Free Cities of the Rhine to helr
them. At Morat, near Berne. the Bur.
gundian cannon battered the walls
around Swiss ears: but the artillery
novel though It was. failed to terrify
them. 1t plowed great gaps among
them. but before il could fire again
the survivors rushed In with those
clumsy five-foot swords and hewed
mailclad men down as If they were
saplings. Charles himself had to ride
for his life with the steer-horns OF
Uri, which the Swiss blew as wal
trumpets, braying behind him as he
fed.
Even he was stunned for a time
but when word came to him that Fer
rand and the Swiss had dared to leave
their mountain businesses and hat
overrun Lorraine. taking the city OF
Nancy, he reused himself and laughed
again, gleefully. "They have trapped
themselves he cried. II swear thai
/ shall destroy them utterly befor,
two weeks have passed.
Three days before Christmas hi!
army sat down before Nancy in
strong position. That night there wa,
Nyba,, bic of4;oars rucha1 In tbov so =,