On this day in 1415 – Henry V’s outnumbered Englishmen defeat France at Agincourt

610 years ago today, King Henry V’s English army won a stunning victory over a much larger French force at the Battle of Agincourt, in northern France, largely thanks to the skill England’s longbowmen.
Whilst England may have lost the wider Hundred Years War, the triumph at Agincourt went down as one of his nation's greatest military achievements.
The victory was immortalised in Shakespeare’s play King Henry V, which was released almost 200 years after the battle.