Battle of Agincourt

Henry V’s exhausted, outnumbered army destroyed the French nobility in the mud with massed longbows.

Core Principles & Analysis

• Rain-soaked plowed fields bogged down charging armored knights in front of the English stakes.
• Massed longbow volleys and the press of the crowd did the killing; French losses were catastrophic.
• Shakespeare’s St. Crispin’s Day speech in Henry V fixed the battle in the English imagination.

Specifications & Metrics

• YEAR: 1415