Page 77 - The Golden Eagle

field. The seventh and last squadron
was under the valorous King of
Aragon himself and his four
nephews, five thousand Aragonese,
well armed and equipped and
mounted upon vast warhorses, and
clad in hauberks of mail, carrying on
their standard an angel with a sword
in his hand. Round about this
squadron were two thousand archers
on foot, and the twelve commanders
of the host were for ever disposing
and setting in order the squadrons
with such mighty noise of trumpet
and fife that it seemed in sooth like
thunder.

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