246, 247, 269 bouvines, battle of, i.
"History of the English People, Index"
John Richard Green
The war was still raging on the continent, and the King had been again defeated, at bouvines, July 27, 1214; he had returned disheartened, but not without bodies of mercenaries, both horse and foot, which excited anxiety in the allied nobles.
"A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)"
Leopold von Ranke
Lafayette, on arriving at bouvines, after travelling fifty leagues of bad roads in two or three days, learnt the disasters of Valenciennes and Lille; he at once saw that the object of the invasion had failed; and he justly thought that the best course would be to effect a retreat.
"History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814"
F. A. M. Miguet
