Note 644 — Chapter VII

For contemporary accounts of the battle of Dreux, see: “Discours de la bataille,” in Mém. du duc de Guise, ed. Michaud, 497 ff.; Beza, Histoire des églises réformées, I, 605 ff.; D’Aubigné, Book III, chaps. xiii, xiv; Tavannes, 392 ff.; La Noue, Mém. milit., chap. x; De Thou, Book XXXIV; C. S. P. Eng., No. 1,282, abstract of a printed pamphlet; No. 1,316, December 21; No. 1,323, December 22, 1562—letter of the admiral to the earl of Warwick; to Queen Elizabeth, Delaborde, II, 178, 179. For details as to the number of prisoners, etc., see C. S. P. For., Nos. 1,286-88, 1,316, 1,317, 1,335, §§4-6; 1,334, 1,353, §6; 1,563, Nos. 12, 22, 28, narrative of Spanish troops. Excellent accounts of the battle are to be consulted in De Ruble, Antoine de Bourbon et Jeanne d’Albret, II, 366 ff.; Whitehead, Gaspard de Coligny, 140-45; and the duke of Aumale’s History of the Princes of Condé (Eng. trans.), I, 150-68. The standard treatment of the subject is Coynart, L’Année 1562 et la bataille de Dreux: étude historique et militaire; extraits divers, correspondance officielles du temps (1894).