[SCA-BMDL] Agincourt

[Monica Gaudio]

Shakespeare, being a wee bit English, may be slightly biased too, you 
know. :)

Illadore



Dani Zweig wrote:
> 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.
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> - Dani
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> 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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>> Achren
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