A great motivational speech. To bad it was written long after the event.
I have long loved this Kenneth Branagh version of Henry V, especially with the excellent score, settings and cast. Particularly good was Brian Blessed as Duke Thomas Beaufort of Exeter (Uncle of HenryV), seen as the bear in armor in this clip. My favorite scene with him is when he brings Henry’s ultimatum to the French Royal Council with words of iron and blood! The wooing scene of Henry and the French Princess Katherine is as comedic as anything written.
Thank you so much for the reminder! Who, after that speech, could ever forget St. Crispin’s Day?
Salisbury is my 20th great grandfather. He was Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury, KG (13 June 1388 – 3 November 1428) of Bisham in Berkshire, was an English nobleman and one of the most important English commanders during the Hundred Years’ War. These were the battles he fought:
• Battle of Agincourt (1415)
• Battle of Baugé (1421)
• Battle of Cravant (1423)
• Battle of Verneuil (1424)
• Siege of Orléans (1428) On 27 October 1428 he was wounded during the Siege of Orléans, when the tower he was inside was hit by a cannonball. There are conflicting reports on the manner in which this wounded him; Enguerrand de Monstrelet states a piece of stone from the window ‘carried away part of his face.’ He died days later at Meung-sur-Loire on 3 November 1428.