[PotatoHeadMick]

This is a fascinating article if you're into historical battles, AA Gill normally does restaurant and TV reviews but he's a good writer.

[rfp1234]

rising farmland, green corn and copses

Whew, I couldn't believe it at first...I thought it read "corpses".

[2banana]

By all contemporary accounts, allowing for medieval exaggeration, on this one Sunday between 20,000 and 30,000 men died. Just so that you grasp the magnitude, that’s a more grievous massacre of British men than on the first day of the Somme. Without machineguns or shells, young blokes hacked, bludgeoned and trampled, suffocated and drowned. An astonishing 1% of the English population died in this field. The equivalent today would be 600,000.

FYI!

[Lurker]

Thanks for this fascinating post.

L

[ZULU]

WOW!!!!
GREAT article.

I’m a supporter of Richard III and would have been a Yorkist. Damn Lancstrians!!! Damn Tudors!!!!!

[the invisib1e hand]

After a bit of argy-bargy, happy slapping, black dungeon-work and a couple of on-your-toes to the Continent, we get Henry V – cocky sod and, more important, lucky sod – who wins Agincourt but unluckily is then killed by the shits while his son is still a nipper.

Sometimes I admire British writing; sometimes it cracks me up, and sometimes it just leaves me scratching my 'ead.

[Free Vulcan]

awesome

[exit82]

Excellent article—about a piece of history I knew nothing about.

The slaughter that men have visited upon other men throughout the last 5,000 years makes one paue at the sheer magnitude of it, and its effects on society, on bloodlines, and on history.

[DariusBane]

Ping for a fresh start tomorrow... Looks like a fantastic read. Thanks for posting.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Thomas Costain wrote a series of books about the Plantagenets that were very popular in the ‘50s and early ‘60s.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/thomas-b-costain/

[Big Giant Head]

Ping for later

[Trailerpark Badass]

mark for later

[Lancey Howard]

AA Gill normally does restaurant and TV reviews but he's a good writer.

Wow, I'll say!
Thanks for posting this.

[BBell]

A good one.

[Lancey Howard]

(( ping ))

When you have fifteen minutes to kill, this story is fantastic.

[SunkenCiv]

more:

Skeletons Of Bloodiest Day (Towton - 1461AD)
The Press | 9-12-2006 | Nadia Jefferson-Brown
Posted on 09/12/2006 2:45:57 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700270/posts

[Andyman]

Outstanding story. However, there is writing, and there is overwriting.

[marsh2]

For perspective, Gettysburg over three days is said to have had 10,000 dead.

[Huber]

An excellent read! Thanks for posting!

[Skooz]

bump

[Pharmboy]

PHM, thanks for the great post. SunkenCiv, thanks for the ping. Indcons, I don't know if you're on the GGG list of SC, so here's a ping for you. And clemenza, I thought you might appreciate this.

This guy can write...