<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">On October 25 the New York Times published an article on some historians' reassessment of the Battle of Agincourt:<BR>
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"</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">........But Agincourt’s status as perhaps the greatest victory againstoverwhelming odds in military history — and a keystone of the Englishself-image — has been called into doubt by a group of historians in <A HREF="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/unitedkingdom/index.html?inline=nyt-geo">Britain</A>and France who have painstakingly combed an array of military and taxrecords from that time and now take a skeptical view of the figureshanded down by medieval chroniclers. The historians haveconcluded that the English could not have been outnumbered by more thanabout two to one. And depending on how the math is carried out, Henrymay well have faced something closer to an even fight, said <A HREF="http://www.southampton.ac.uk/history/profiles/curry.html">Anne Curry</A>, a professor at the University of Southampton who is leading the study. ...."<BR>
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/world/europe/25agincourt.html?_r=1&th&emc=th<BR>
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It has a couple of nice illustrations.<BR>
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