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Excerpt from Historical Memoirs of the House of Russell, Vol. 2 of 2: From the Time of the Norman Conquest
On the celebrated field Of Zutphen, in 1586, being one Of that splendid retinue of captains who the previous year had been sent to Holland with the Earl Of Leicester, he dis played a valour that carried consternation, rout, and havoc, wherever his horse bore him. Naturally tall, and sinewy, and athletic, his figure, magnified by the mists that prevailed upon that noted morning, seemed like a gigantic image, and, joined to the romantic achievements Of his arm, im pressed the superstitious fancies Of the Spaniards with the belief that they were contending with a more than earthly apparition. SO terribly he charged, says Stowe, who derived the scene from an eye-witness, that, after he had broke his lance, be with his curtle-axe so played his part, that the enemy reported him a devil, and no man; for.
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