We few, we happy few, we band of brothers! On this day, in 1415, King Henry V, outnumbered 5 to 1, defeted the French at Agincourt!



by just_jason89

28 comments

  1. What a day for ranged weaponry.

    I say we meet them in Calais for round 1005 this weekend

  2. If you’ve got Brian Blessed to shout on your side it’s going to be a good day

  6. Worth noting lots of Welshmen were there as the prized longbowmen

  8. I was today years old when I found out that Saint Crispin and Crispinian were two people. I always thought that Shakespeare just wrote it down wrong. 😑

  9. All those years of income tax to prepare for the next war… we’re going to fucking rinse them.

  10. And last Tuesday was Trafalgar day … quite a week

  13. Why is the battle of Crecy not celebrated as is Agincourt, preceding it as a longbow principle, perhaps because Edward changed the rules for knights and commoners, and mounted knight superiority ended there.

  16. On the rest is history they said the English fired 75,000 arrows at the French in the first minute of battle. How mental is that.

  17. The battle was fought near the River Somme, foreshadowing of the battle in 1916 some 500 years later. Don’t read about the Battle of the Somme, it’s too horrific, btw 🙁

  19. I’m on the tube, got a bit hot, so rolled up my sleeves and showed my scars, and said “These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.”
    Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, but I then remembered I had fallen asleep last night while eating a KitKat Chunky, had a sniff & lick, and yes it was actually the rememanents of one.

  20. Shout out to the Welsh longbows,
    Who before terrorising the French,
    Terrorised the English

  21. *adjusts nerd glasses* Was it on this day though? Hasn’t the calendar changed since then

  22. The Welsh longbowmen were absolute legends on that field. It’s crazy to think how much that single piece of tech changed the course of the battle. You really have to wonder how different history would be without them.

  24. Brian Blessed shout +50 to all stats of all allied units in range. -100 to all enemy units in range

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