This series has seven easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: French Fleet Coming from Carribean.IntroductionLord Cornwallis took
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Vikings Given Normandy
Today's installment concludes Empire of the Franks Splits and Decays,our selection from the Earliest Times by François P. G. Guizot published in
Siege of Paris
It ended when the Vikings were bought off and the Emperor deposed.Continuing Empire of the Franks Splits and Decays,our selection from A Popular
Vikings Attack Paris
In November, 885, under the reign of Charles the Fat, after having, for more than forty years, irregularly ravaged France, they resolved to unite
The Vikings Pillage
The greatest sign of the decline of western civilization was the inability to launch a navy to stop the Vikings.Continuing Empire of the Franks
Formal Division of the Empire
Thus fell through and disappeared, in 843, by virtue of the treaty of Verdun, the second of Charlemagne's grand designs, the resuscitation of the
Charles the Bald Gains Upper Hand
The big speech was recited in several languages, a symptom of an empire breaking apart.Continuing Empire of the Franks Splits and Decays,our
Brothers in Arms — Against Each Other
For years longer the scenes which have just been described kept repeating themselves again and again; rivalries and secret plots . . . .Continuing
Emperor’s Family Troubles
Franks' laws on inheritance led to the division of the empire among his three sons. Then a fourth son was born.Continuing Empire of the Franks