agincourt

The battlefield at Agincourt also contains nothing of interest, and the famed forest isn't there today, either.

It seems to me that at Agincourt the archers place obstacles in front of their position--sharpened stakes.

Anti-cav arrows were used at Agincourt to great effect, although it's possible the mud killed more French than the English did.

Also, the Queen ties us back to stuff like Henry V and Agincourt etc.

I guessed it was supposed to be Agincourt because of the prominence of archers.

It's from Shakespeare's Henry V and it's part of the speech given by the titular King to his troops just before the Battle of Agincourt - which fell on St.

There were some battles where arrow weight was mildly important (eg, at Agincourt where the French armour had advanced enough since Crecy that it gave some reasonable protection against arrows).

This is the standard simplified narrative of what happened at Agincourt - English archers wiping out French noble heavy cavalry - although it also seems like that was an exception.

;-) There is also a tendency from critics to assume that bows were always fired against plate armour (as at Crecy in 1346 and Agincourt in 1415).

Even in later battles like Agincourt where we have better sources and the longbowmen were decisive, more seems to have been written about their field fortifications against cavalry charges than their ranged tactics.

The Battle of Agincourt became a major English victory against the French during the Hundred-Year War and led to Henry V being recognized as Heir Apparent to the French crown, and his son, Henry VI, claiming the title of King of France as well being King of England.

A playwright would not need the sounds of hoofs, the cries of men and the clanging of swords to know that the Battle of Agincourt is raging on stage - Just as a developer doesn't need to know that pushing a button triggered a state change - But someone who's never read Shakespeare - or in our case someone who's never written software - would find them very elucidating.

If the French-speaking English commanders at Agincourt told their archer captains to "Laissez-y" instead of "Fire!", what difference does that make?

It's probably leakage from the well-known Battle of Agincourt, which showed it could be a concern, but the mud is an important detail.

Agincourt was interesting because mud (a combination of rain and fresh plowed fields) reduced infantry and cavalry mobility.

If it's Agincourt, then Bret talks about it quite a bit in the article.