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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
fer all youse histery buffs...
If you've ever seen Henry V or read John Keagan's accounts of the battle, Agincourt was a tremendous one-sided battle in history.. French losses 5000... English losses 25... The totals have been argued over since about 1400 A.D. It is nearly legendary... Shakespeare wrote about it.
THIS REAL THING IS EVEN HUGHER.
very cool... very proud... MY president is GWB.
(feel free to freep the facts)
2,419 posted on 04/02/2003 5:24:57 PM PST by aloysius89 (fascite magnopere aut iti domun)
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To: aloysius89
very cool... very proud... MY president is GWB.

Amen. Thanks, aloysius89.

BBC version:(^;

 
600 YEARS OF BBC ANTI-BRITISH BIAS REVEALED -- Special Iconoclast Report from WILLIAM GRIM

Battle of Agincourt (1415) -- "This is London calling. Stung by the deaths of 14 British soldiers, while only inflicting 15,000 deaths on the elite French fusiliers, the armed forces of England, led by the inexperienced King Henry V, have suffered a serious setback in the Hundred Years War. The French soldiers have proven to be much more resilient in battle than King Henry's top military advisor, Sir John Falstaff, originally thought. The British public is becoming increasingly impatient with the slow pace of the Hundred Years War, which now seems destined to last well into its 101st year."

2,544 posted on 04/02/2003 6:22:46 PM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl ("The dagger is clearly pointed at the heart of the regime now." Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks)
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