Battle of Agincourt ("As Tears Go By" by Marianne Faithful)

[summersrain]

Fun Fact: This battle is also where we get using the middle finger as an insult to others ^.^

[uafchris]

@summersrain No, thats the V sign you're thinking of

[ErikHgk]

Very good to see after i read the book: Azincourt

[cardcollector6794]

Wasn't there something about the battlefield being bottlenecked so the French had to filter through it, giving England that strategic advantage?

[77kraxx]

is not agincourt but azincourt...why transform the name in english language

[uncletomalex]

@77kraxx Okay then, why do you call London, 'Londres' for example?, names are changed when we have hard time to pronounce it....

[lobstahpotts]

@77kraxx I had always learned that in the French that was spoken at that time, it was Agincourt but the French language evolved, changing it to Azincourt, so that the English is an actual representation of the French name for the location at the time the battle was fought.

[fivefourfiveX39]

The battle was not won by archers but by the effects of the terrain and the bottle necking oh the soldiers down the charge toward the enemy. And the incompetence of the French noble who was set to execute the plans into action on the field because he allowed the older nobles make the decision which were not trained properly on tactics. The knights charging on foot after dismounting because of the horses getting huge injuries due to arrows, we're weighed down in the sticky wet soil of that perio

[tinkerbelllana]

@fivefourfiveX39

so the archers being lightly armoured and therfore faster than a armourd knight or man at arms dashing in from the flanks and hitting with there mauls and long knives had no impact on the battle did it not

the term to get a mauling comes from the fact that archers once they couldnt use there bows would run in and out of the fight attacking with there mauls from the flank while the more armoured men at arms held the line

[ArnulfderBoese]

Absolutely great!

[CamelotRocker97]

I saw that movie @ school!!!!! It was good, I liked it.

[virlennenklein]

At Azincourt like at Waterloo... The English rock at fight at a distance from lords with swords... French think they could win the battle only with courage, by charging without looking and found mud at Azincourt and hedgehogs at Waterloo!

[clement63L3]

@virlennenklein Englishmen were lucky to find a position flanked by woods and that the heavy rain transformed the battellfield into a mud puddle.... French tried to do the battle as it was usualy done at this time... but fortunately in 1453 at the Battle of Castillon, French fought at distance too with a lot of artillery which changed entirely the way of fighting in the world, with new weapons and new strategies

Waterloo is just the result of 26 years of european coalitions against one country

[virlennenklein]

@clement63L3 I know, and beyond this Napoleon could have won the battle as Wellington himself said. The charge of Marshall Ney's 10.000 cavalrymen was certainly mad and magnificent. If the British have done an ordinary line they would have been defeated. THey had better discipline and were certainly brave enough to face such a powerful and terrifying attack...

[NasriTheNewKing]

@virlennenklein

You know the charge was due to a mistake from Ney , he saw soldiers who were retreating , he thought British were retreating so naturally he charged but unfortunatly for him the british squares were waiting him but even with that British suffered huge losses . But what's funny is that even british didn't expect that Ney would charge , Waterloo was won on a huge luck blow .

[leexlma]

how good are the battle scenes in this movie please reply ?

[voiceoftruth2006]

@leexlma

Define "good."

They're great cinema. Are they at all realistic? No.

[brlu91]

I just discovered your videos, and I LOVE them! I am especially thrilled to see your use of Branagh's Henry V--the film that 19 years ago started my life-long obsession with all things Shakespeare. I now teach British Literature and will have to use your videos for Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales. You are very talented!

[essertpitay]

Weird.

[tinkerbelllana]

i do archery and i am a girl my three younger sisters , my dad and my granddad do it aswell

my dad founf this video and showed me

i love the line " our longbow man out flank french knights

and " our arrows start the dedly fight

go to norton archers and see wat we do xxx

[MateusVIII]

This song is soo funyy, it isn't bad but for some reason it makes me laugh when she tlks about war on that rythim

[MrFileshare]

@MateusVIII Yes, her lyrics and choise of matching melodies are brilliant, and she can sing about the most gruesome things with the sweetest voice!

Here are some of the other masterpieces in the genre of sweetened gruesomeness: "Beowulf", "William the Conqueror", "Attila the Hun", "Pompeii", "The Divine Comedy", "The Trojan War", "The Borgias".

[MateusVIII]

@MrFileshare yes they are brilliant but funny

[vanriku]

What movie was this btw?

[historyteachers]

@vanriku the best movie ever! Kenneth Branagh's version of Shakespeare's Henry V

[vanriku]

@historyteachers Thanks! I'm totally going to go rent it! I do armor fighting in the SCA and they actually got most of it right!

[jbottomley15]

wow,,what voice !!!

[NJMerlin]

“Agincourt” is the regular spelling in English.

[Hardrada88]

YES! I was hoping to have found this by you. One of my most favorite medieval battles to reenact next to Towton. 90 mph heavy bodkin, smash out a modern motorcycle crash helmet ;) beautiful and terrible creation was the longbow. i shoot mine over a farmers field where you can find many 'loses of war' harnesses, buckles, broken bits of blade etc.

[RuerlKhan]

@Hardrada88 While your test shows some of the deadly force behind the longbow i'm afraid that your test is rather unfair towards medieval armour. You see, a modern helmet works by absorbing the blows (since its never designed by be struk by sharp objects) while a medieval helmet works by deflecting the blow (because it is designed such), thus a helmet is likely to deflect the force of the arrow away. If you want a more fair test then try to shoot sideways into a 1.2 mm piece of hardened steel.

[Hardrada88]

@RuerlKhan Just to throw this in, as you havent been here to see it, we test on reenactment and museum replica armor. Seeing as only a small portion actually wore that sort of armor then i've never concentrated on it alone. The effects have been test from the tunic, maille, gamberson to plate and reenactment armor is usually tougher than the original. All I can say is, point proven. someone is going to end up looking like a hedgehog armor or no.

[RuerlKhan]

@Hardrada88 Then your tests differ from the ones I have heard described. Did you shoot direct at the target or in a curve? As for maille & gamberson, was the maille properly rivetted? There is one test on maille here: swordforum (dot) com/forums/showthread.php?8302­0-Riveted-Maille-and-Padded-Ja­ck-Tests-(very-photo-intensive­)

I'd love to see picture results of your tests, always looking forward to learn more. But perhaps we ought to take this to private posts now :)

[Hardrada88]

@RuerlKhan Sure thing :) Always like other opinions! The maille was indeed riveted and was done on my old reenactment shirt. As for the plate it was taken about 40 yards away and fired at with myself and a couple friends (only for a higher chance of accuracy) say 7 out of 10 arrows hit it and did nothing but some got through into the padded boss.

[voiceoftruth2006]

@Hardrada88

What draw weight of bow were you using and what were the arrows like?

[osez]

Azincourt instead of Agincourt no?

[stue962]

great video beautiful song of a great battle :D

[lightnessss]

bows and boats... always deadly for the frenchs

[NJMerlin]

Henry was hardly “distant” from the Plantagenets. Edward III was his great-grandfather, and, by a strictly male succession, he was the rightful heir, though the Mortimer line had a superior claim going by the modern rule that places brotherless daughters before nephews. Going by a not strictly male succession, he was also the rightful heir to France.

[retc]

My personal favorite, I have to admit.

[retc]

My personal favorite

[scottcrainey]

Can't decide which one I like more - this one or the one about Henry VIII.  I think this one wins, if only because Branagh's Henry V is one of the coolest movies ever made.

[scottcrainey]

Can't decide which one I like more - this one or the one about Henry VIII. I think this one wins, if only because Branagh's Henry V is one of the coolest movies ever made.

[retc]

@scottcrainey U did that post twice.

[hollyhock18x7]

You should do videos about the Battle of Hastings or Tours, and definitely the Hundred Years' War in general!

[Kerethuk]

The Cream of French Nights wiped out by English Bowmen. That was a great day, and and contributing factor to the end of the Armoured cavalry charge,

[TheVenkat74]

Very good. If, as well as history, you are a fan of Flight of the Conchords, check out videos by historicalconchords, including Hitlerpotamus vs. Weimarnoceros, Inner Kingdom Prussia, Hitler's Hurt Feelings, Foux du French Revolution and more to come soon. All made by three Year 11 students.

[ragnarhairybreek]

brilliant, one of your best in my opinion. It's great all of the necessary film is found in Branagh's work :)

[historyteachers]

@ragnarhairybreek thanks...I had a group of 14 year old students who were completely drawn to this vintage song! Seeing Branaugh's version of the battle as a teen moved me so much...plus, Henry V is my favorite Shakesperean work!

[abbeyandjig]

@historyteachers I've only just realised that two of my favourite YouTube videos are both yours, so I'm spending a pleasant Friday evening with a bottle of wine and your videos, singing along and dancing. I'm impressed that your opinions so closely match mine - this film was part of the reason I majored in medieval history! Thanks so much, these are all absolutely brilliant. Love them all, especially this one!

[historyteachers]

@ragnarhairybreek I wonder if anyone recognized the young Batman (Christian Bale) in the running scene?

[retc]

@historyteachers I did!

[WulfstanHrafnsson]

@historyteachers ...and Blackadder's dad (Brian Blessed), too!

[WulfstanHrafnsson]

@WulfstanHrafnsson ... not to mention Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm)!

[TheGuitarhawk]

Yes,the original song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards,but who wrote this?

[whatbogusnamingrules]

Didn't Henry have a legitimate claim to the French lands & throne? This is a case where I might disagree with the otherwise great history in the songs.

[tribetng]

@whatbogusnamingrules He had a legitimate, if not to strong claim, as a (distant) blood descendant of the Plantagenet dynasty he had a claim to their old territories which make up half of the country of what we know as France. Also he we related (distantly) through marriage to one of the French royal houses (the one that had been in charge but didn’t have an hire) it’s all a bit complicated but mostly in England it was all seen as a good excuse to rob France blind.

[Biggoron012]

written by mick jagger and keith richards

[MerylStreep1536]

Wow, this is such an amazing video! Henry V is one of my favorite people in history.

[Laceykat66]

Short, but each word counts.

Well done. You got all the important facts in without a wasted breath.