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 the Fourth died in 1413, in the fourteenth year of his reign.

20. Henry the Fifth is famed as the conqueror of France. He went to war with that country, on the same pretext that Edward the Third did before; and with better success, for the French king was at last glad to make peace by agreeing that Henry should be king of France after his death.

21. The greatest victory gained by the English, was at the battle of Agincourt. King Henry married the French king's daughter, but he died soon afterwards, in 1422, having reigned nine years; and leaving an infant son; and in a little while the king of France died too, and he also left a son.

22. Then there was a dispute which of these princes should be king of France, and a new war was begun which lasted many years, during which the English lost all that the armies of Henry the Fifth had won.

23. In the mean time the young king, Henry the Sixth, grew up so weak in mind and sickly in body, that he was not able to govern the country; therefore, his ministers and the queen, a French princess, named Margaret of Anjou, had to manage every thing for him.

24. But many people did not like the queen,