They have tricked us off our good position, into the river, and our men can’t get out.” It is a terrible sight. Our men in battle armor on their metal-plated horses go plunging into the water, and then struggle to get up the other side of the stream, where they are battered by the York men-at-arms, wielding great swords, war axes, and pikes. The knights fall from their horses, but cannot get to their feet to defend themselves, the horses’ hooves crash down through the water to crush them as they struggle to rise, or weighed down by their flooded breastplates they drown, scrambling in the
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