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What was so unusual about the battle of Agincourt?

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What was so unusual about the battle of Agincourt?
posted Dec 4, 2015 by anonymous

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The Battle of Agincourt took place on Friday, 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day), near Azincourt, in northern France.

This battle is notable for the use of the English longbow in very large numbers, with English and Welsh archers forming most of Henry's army. The battle is the centrepiece of the play Henry V by William Shakespeare.

In this event, Henry ordered the slaughter of what were perhaps several thousand French prisoners, sparing only the most high ranked (presumably those most likely to fetch a large ransom under the chivalric system of warfare). According to most chroniclers, Henry's fear was that the prisoners (who, in an unusual turn of events, actually outnumbered their captors) would realize their advantage in numbers, rearm themselves with the weapons strewn about the field and overwhelm the exhausted English forces

answer Dec 4, 2015 by Amit Kumar Pandey
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