Wondering if all those that show for the ceremony tomorrow won’t indeed be as a horde of French knights across a muddy field.
I’m ignorant. ?
RE: The St Crispin’s Day speech is a part of William Shakespeare’s history play Henry V, Act IV on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt.
The Shakespeare that Grey Whiskers wrote is from the “St Crispin’s Day Speech” from Henry V, Act IV Scene iii. It was supposedly based off the speech that Henry V gave before the battle of Agincourt. In the battle the English stood against a French onslaught of horsed knights.
One of the contributing factors - outside the longbows the English used - was that the night and morning prior to the battle it rained and rained... and rained... turning the field into a muddy morass which hindered the horses dramatically, gave the bowmen more time for additional flights of arrow, AND supposedly helped to drown quite a few knight once they were dehorsed.
Here’s an excellent description of that battle ad Henry’s actions.
https://www.historynet.com/hallowed-ground-agincourt-france.htm