Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 131
only oppose tothis formidable flotilla one hundred and four galleys, twelve galeasses, onelarge galleon, and fourteen large ships. But in point of fact, and it was one of the consequences of feudalism,large fleets were never constructed and kept up by the governments underwhose authority they put… … Fig. 78.—French Caravel.—From Premieres (Euvres de J. Devaux, Pilot du Havre, Manuscriptof the Sixteenth Century, in the National Library of Paris. them to defend themselves against one. Here, again, a complete analogyexisted between feudal rights at sea and those on land. Feudalism possessedits…
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