On This Day In History...The Battle of Agincourt.

The Great Battles ^

[Valin]

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[tet68]

Arrrrgh, just lost my complete post, went to get a snippet of info from absolutehakespear.com and came back and my whole post has disappeared. Grrrrrrr.

Yes, the video is worth it,one of the best.

Keep in mind the English having broken the siege of Harfleur
then proceeded to countermarch with the French for several days in bad weather. Cold, hungery, the English had to make
a terrible decision, Fight or quit the field.

Harfleur is where this line from Shakespeare comes from...
"Once more unto the breach, dear
friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
......."

For a good examination of the battle you might read
john Keegan's "The Face of Battle".

The French paid the price of their vain glory.
While the bodies were probably not piled "as high as a man"
certainly they were two or even three deep in places so that the attackers had to CLIMB OVER THE DEAD just to attack!

The attack on the baggage train enraged the English because the french killed the English pages and men in waiting.

[resistmuch]

One of the greatest things in the English language. It always makes my day.

[SAMWolf]

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Hey, great site- I can see that I will be using it extensively!

[VOA]

As an English archer could loose up to ten flights a minute, by the time the first
landed another would have been in the air.

"Maybe outmanned, but never out-gunned."

[VOA]

As a result, 200 archers were given the job as they were tough, professional soldiers
outside the bounds of chivalry.

OK, as usual, give the real dirty work to the Welshmen!

(at least, I've heard in my informal education that a lot of the archers were Welsh...
I might stand corrected on that)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[T}here were more [French] prisoners than the English.

Some things never change.

[Henchster]

Bookmark for later reading.

[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 10/25/2003, thanks Valin.

[SunkenCiv]

Did your ancestors fight at Agincourt? War records of 250,000 medieval soldiers go online
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
UPDATED: 08:36 EDT, 21 July 2009
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201096/Did-ancestors-fight-Agincourt-War-records-250-000-medieval-soldiers-online.html

https://www.medievalsoldier.org/