Agincourt: Myths Explained
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The French Armoury at Agncourt
Any discussion of agincourt has to keep coming back to shakespeare. The story goes that oliviar went to see sir james mann, who was the then master of the armouries at the tower of london. And malnard said, i do hope you're not going to have this silly notion of knights being winched on their saddled olivia. They actuly had a good plan. What went wrong at agincourt was the mud. It's too easy to condemn the french leadership for mistakes. I think you do need to give henry the fift some generalship credit for the way he marshalled that army. Henry the fifth set about
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