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It was a spectacular win for the young English King Henry V on St. Crispin’s Day 1415. And everybody loves to see a win for ...
The Battle of Agincourt is often heralded as one of the greatest English military victories. Here are ten reasons why King Henry V's army was able to defeat a French force four times its size By ...
The play describes one of England’s most illustrious victories: the Battle of Agincourt against the French army, October 25, 1415.
A pivotal battle that would change the course of European warfare forever and saw the French army lose to an English army that was less than half its size.
Some French people found it strange, even perverse, to spend £1.2m on a hi-tech commemoration of one of the most crushing defeats in their nation's history.
Experts on the Battle of Agincourt gathering at the University of Southampton to mark its 600th anniversary will hear new evidence suggesting Henry V's naval fleet, used to transport troops, was ...
But a new battle of Agincourt is nevertheless building here that joins English battlefield purists with French conservationists and some local residents over plans to build four large wind turbine ...
A brief historical note before we begin the afternoon’s festivities: Today is the 607th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, the climactic operation in a famous land-grab by the British firm ...
The French are planning a new commemoration to the battle of Agincourt. How should a museum depict a famous defeat?
This illustration (above) of about 1450 of the Battle of Agincourt comes from an English chronicle known as the Brut. The importance of the archers in the battle is given particular emphasis in its ...
The 'middle finger salute' did not derive from the defiant gestures of archers whose fingers had been severed at the Battle of Agincourt.