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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 ...
Pride in past valor may be best expressed in the St. Crispin’s Day speech from “Henry V” (Act IV, Scene iii), delivered by the young king on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt.
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King Charles personally ordered the renaming of HMS Agincourt, overruling his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, a source has claimed. The seventh and final Astute-class submarine, which is under ...
The decision to rename the Royal Navy’s HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles has sparked considerable debate, and rightly so. It feels like an unnecessary act of self-censorship, bending over backwards to ...
Critical to the outcome of the Battle of Agincourt were the English archers, some 7,000 forming the bulk of Henry’s army, pouring a torrent of arrows into the ranks of the French, who were jammed ...
With 150-year-old roots, Agincourt GO is one of the newest Stouffville Line stations. Agincourt GO Station is a longstanding hub for the historic Scarborough, Ontario community for which it shares a ...
The Church TimesA poem and artwork produced by the future Beatle John Lennon, aged 12, at school concern the same famous English victory of 25 October 1415 as Agincourt: Battle of the scarred king, by ...
The Battle of the Alamo took place in early 1836, during the Texas Revolution. It was fought between Mexican and Texan forces at a fort called the Alamo in San Antonio.
To date, five Royal Navy warships have been named HMS Agincourt in honor of the Battle of Agincourt of 1415. However, it was the World War I battleship that surely would have impressed King Henry ...