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it must in justice be said of him that he carried 

 his master creditably through several rather bloody 

 encounters before man and horse were killed in 

 the great conflict at Barnet. 



According to Hume's " History of England " — 

 and probably no history extant is more accurate 

 in detail — Warwick, when he received the fatal 

 thrust, was fighting on foot. 



No trustworthy description is obtainable of 

 the horse that Joan of Arc rode when she led 

 the French army so successfully against the 

 previously victorious troops of Henry VI. Only 

 one indisputable statement relating to her leader- 

 ship upon that famous occasion has been handed 

 down to us, and that is that she rode astride. 



Pictures innumerable have been painted that 

 depict her as she is supposed to have appeared 

 in the heat of the fray, and others that show her 

 to us as she oua-ht to have looked when the en- 

 gagement was over. By basing our impressions 

 solely upon such pictures we might well conclude 

 that the Pucelle went into action riding a white 

 horse ; that in the thick of the fight she changed 

 first on to a dun-coloured mare and then on to a 

 bright bay mare ; and that when the engagement 

 was over she once more changed horses in order 

 to ride back triumphant on a stallion as black as 

 Black Saladin himself! 



According to Mr Douglas Murray, whose 

 " History of Joan of Arc," published recently, 



