The Grimaldi family which gave Genoa many doges, came early into the sovereignty of Monaco, by the hook or crook those days, but whether it was they who fostered its piracy in the fourteenth century, does not distinctly appear, though it seems certain that one of the Grimaldi princes served against the English under Philip of Valois, and was wounded at crecy.
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The valour displayed by the English nobles and gentlemen who accompanied him was magnificent, worthy the descendants of the victors at crecy, Poitiers, and Agincourt; and the good behaviour of their followers-with a few rare exceptions-had been equally signal.
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Yet it is a fact which can hardly be ignored, that from crecy to Inkermann there have been exceedingly few instances where an English army, large or small, has been driven from a position.
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