Today is the 590th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt. G-squared has a short post on it today. The battle was made famous by Shakespere's "St. Crispin's Day" speech in Henry V, but the battle itself was stunning in its consequences. A vastly outnumbered English force decimated the French forces and slaughtered the flower of the French nobility. It would take a century for France to recover from such a blow. How were the English able to defeat a larger, better-equipped force? The English long-bow, which revolutionized late medieval warfare.
Claims that the loss at Agincourt is what made the French cheese-eating surrender monkeys cannot be verified.
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