ABSTRACT
A n d when the Lord King had done this, he immediately issued a proclamation, that everyone should prepare to embark, horse as well as foot, with bread for a month; that all should know that he wished to pass into Calabria on Monday to fight King Charles (it was Thursday when the proclamation was made) and that, if it pleased God that King Charles would give him battle, he need not go to Bordeaux, whereat he would be very glad. And when people heard the proclamation every man prepared joyously to get ready. And when King Charles heard this news it seemed to him no jesting matter; rather he at once decided to depart for this reason and because he had lost the sea, as I have told you before, and could not provide himself with victuals. He did not wish to await the Lord King of Aragon who, with all his followers, passed into Calabria and landed at Catona and thought to find King Charles there. But they told him that he had gone away. And the Lord King was much displeased at this and said : “ As we are here, let us not have come in vain.” And they went to the city of Reggio and besieged it, and they had not been there two days, during which they had pressed the garrison hard, when it surrendered to mercy and gave over to him all the Frenchmen who were there. And the Lord King sent them away as he had done the others. And after he had taken the city of Reggio, he took also Calanna and la Mota, the castle of Sanct
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