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The Peasants Revolt, 1381, Richard II, the boy king, met Wat Tyler at Smithfield and addressed his subjects in English, the language of the people

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 Dinesh
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The English and English were breaking through. Wat Tyler led the Peasants’ Revolt, which in its mere five days of life threatened to do for England in 1381 most of what the French revolutionaries did for France in 1790. If it can be said to have failed by one act and one man, then that man was one boy king -- thirteen years olf -- Richard II. He stopped I by having the guile and the guts to meet Wat Tyler and his conquering army (they had taken the hitherto impregnable White Tower of London) at Smithfield, addressing him in English. At Smithfield, using English under duress, he pulled Wat Tyler into a trap in which he was murdered and immediately and daringly rode across the rebels and addressed them, also in English. He gave promises which placated them and turned them home, promises which he soon broke, homes in which they were hunted down. But English was at the heart of it. As far as we know, Richard II in the first recorded example of a monarch using only English since the Conquest. And he reached for it when he was within a few minutes of seeing his kingdom transformed utterly. ~ Page 61
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 Dinesh
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The Adventure of English
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