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The Battle of Agincourt (/ ˈ æ dʒ ɪ n k ɔːr (t)/ AJ-in-kor(t); [a] French: Azincourt) was an English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place on 25 October 1415 ( Saint Crispin's Day ) near Azincourt , in northern France.
Agincourt 1415 (disputed; see below) The Oriflamme was lost at least four times during its medieval history: Mons-en-Pévèle, [8] Crécy, [9] Poitiers, [10] and during the campaigns of the Seventh Crusade under King Louis IX. [11] [12] Although the Oriflamme has often been depicted as present at the battle of Agincourt, modern historians have ...
Battle of Agincourt: England 25 October, English longbowmen under Henry V defeat French under Charles I d'Albret. 6000 French died. 400 English died. 1418–1419 Siege of Rouen: England 31 July - 19 January 1419, Henry V of England re-gains a foothold in Normandy. 1419 Battle of La Rochelle: Castille Castilian fleet defeats the English fleet. 1420
The Battle of Agincourt as depicted in the 15th century 'St Albans Chronicle' by Thomas Walsingham. Most importantly, the victory at Agincourt inspired and boosted the English morale, while it caused a heavy blow to the French as it further aided the English in their conquest of Normandy and much of northern France by 1419. The French ...
The Battle of Agincourt was heavily dramatized by William Shakespeare in Henry V, featuring the battle in which Henry inspired his much-outnumbered English forces to fight the French through a St Crispin's Day Speech, saying "the fewer men, the greater share of honour". The central part of the speech begins, "This day is called the feast of ...
The Lancastrian War was the third and final phase of the Hundred Years' War between England and France.It lasted from 1415, when Henry V of England invaded Normandy, to 1453, when the English were definitively defeated in Aquitaine.
Rather than march on Paris directly, Henry elected to make a raiding expedition across France toward English-occupied Calais. In a campaign reminiscent of Crécy, he found himself outmanoeuvred and low on supplies and had to fight a much larger French army at the Battle of Agincourt, north of the Somme. Despite the problems and having a smaller ...
October 25 – Battle of Agincourt: Archers, led by Henry V of England are instrumental in defeating a larger army of French knights. [8] Edward, 2nd Duke of York, the son of King Henry, is killed in the battle, along with the French commander, Charles I d'Albret, Constable of Paris, and the second-in-command, John I, Duke of Alençon.