The English ordered the French prisoners executed because they feared their baggage train would be overrun. Sorry, but I don’t have much sympathy for the French.
By the way, although Henry is usually recognized as the hero of Agincourt, one of his most successful commanders had been the First Earl of Shrewsbury, Sir John Talbot, who led the forces at Harleur, the precursor to Agincourt.
I recommend it highly.
“well-positioned army besting a much larger force.”
They pinched them in and the field got muddy.
The English long bow did the trick and the rest got hacked to death.
The average distance for the longbow was over 250 yards and up to 350 yards...some say it could shoot up to 400, but I have a hard time believing that. It would not pierce armor, but the horses really caught hell. So figure the first volley taking out about half the horses and then the attackers had to go around those.
Thats with about 60 thousand shots per minute.
Towton was a far worse battle.
“hold their manhoods cheap”. One of the great lines of English literature.
The pope wanted to ban crossbows and the English longbow as inhumane weapons of mass destruction. It wasn’t fair to render the knight’s ponderous armor totally ineffective.
What a strange site.
Commonly known as the War of the Roses...
For later
An English Logbow in the hands of a trained archer is a formidable weapon.
See for yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DveK-vWS94