The Real Reason England Won the Battle of Agincourt — It Wasn’t Just the Longbow

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• MA

  @marcboblee1863 · 4 weeks ago

  As always sir, thank you for the deep dive into history

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• TI

  @timkirkpatrick9155 · 4 weeks ago

  Armagnac! very good brandy

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• PE

  @peregrinemccauley5010 · 4 weeks ago

  Excellent video, again.

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• RO

  @robertcale6827 · 3 weeks ago

  Thanks for the very good explanation!

• UN

  @UncoverSecrets637 · 3 weeks ago

  Great work

• EP

  @EpochAtlasofHistory · 4 weeks ago

  the French really lost a war because nobody wanted to let the other guy lead... human ego never changes lol

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• WH

  @whollybraille7043 · 1 day ago

  It's the location, too.  There was no possibility of an organized retreat and regrouping, for the French.  The area wasn't just mud, it was too narrow.  You wanna win, you gotta be the one to choose the terrain and weapons.

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  @vincentsaia6545 · 3 weeks ago

  Very interesting.

• BE

  @benjamindejonge3624 · 4 weeks ago

  Itswinningthe battle but loosing the war example

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• MI

  @Michaelbath-i6j · 4 weeks ago

  Try to find the village of &quot;Agincourt&quot; on a map.The name is Azincourt and always was.<br>Your sequence of the battle is incorrect. Henry moved his army from the top of a slope to the bottom to put boggy ground between his and the French forces - not just to provoke an attack. The mounted attack came while the foot were still assembling. The horses were killed or driven mad by arrow wounds and many in their panic ran through the French lines disrupting them. As the first French &quot;battle&quot; advanced they were met by showers of arrows. Each archer had a mandated 48 arrows in his quivers. At 8 shots per minute their arrow supply was exhausted in 6. The leading French &quot;battle&quot; were encased from head to foot in the finest armour that money could buy. It was created to stop or deflect crossbow bolts and arrows. The English arrow heads (pointed bodkins) were made of iron, which bent at the tip when striking plate armour. As the French &quot;battle&quot; approached they encountered the muddy ground at the bottom of the slope, so they sought the higher, drier ground on the left flank of their march - in front of the English right. That compacted them into a surging mass in column rather than line. The archers who had spread out along the tree line and had exhausted their arrows fell on their flank and rear.

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• AN

  @andrefava1028 · 3 weeks ago

  La noblesse française n&apos;avait toujours pas retenu les leçons de Crecy et de Poitiers. Ça se passait sous Charles VI &quot;le fou&quot;, incapable physiquement de régner et entouré de traîtres et d&apos;incompétents. L&apos;armée anglaise était mobile et son armement léger, l&apos;armée française trop lourde avec un armement dépassé. Ajoutez à cela que la veille, il avait plu et que le sol était boueux.

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• GA

  @garymills562 · 3 weeks ago

  The king of England had a propensity of total inability to rule, and the colonies took advantage of this. 😂