[SCA-BMDL] Agincourt

[Dani Zweig]

You're going to believe a bunch of French historians who say "The
French didn't outnumber Henry as much as he claimed"?  Shakespeare,
not being French, is a much more credible source.

- Dani

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:32 PM,  <Achren2 at aol.com> wrote:
> On October 25 the New York Times published an article on some historians'
> reassessment of the Battle of Agincourt:
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> "........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
> Britainand 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 Anne Curry, a professor at the University of Southampton
> who is leading the study. ...."
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/world/europe/25agincourt.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
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> It has a couple of nice illustrations.
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