Ignore @1piazzola...He's just a sore Frenchman. Didn't the French change the name from Agincourt to Azincourt..?? Surprisingly the French have erected a monument to this battle. Apparently the area has changed very little from the time the battle was fought.
@1piazzola I'd think twice before I'd call any who fought thus "cowards." I've been decorated for valor in combat and even I am not convinced that I'd stand as firmly as these men did who faced such a cavalry charge by the "tanks" of the day. These were different times, to be sure, and we shouldn't be too quick to judge so harshly from the comfort of our armchairs.
@cbrusharmy I apologize il I have offended you., my father told me that English are brave soldiers. But I'm sick to hear celebrate Poitiers, Crécy, Azincourt : stupid, stupid french knights! Easy, easy victory of the bow upon the sword! Sorry, I am indeed a sore Frenchie (or Froggy).
@1piazzola No, I'm not offended, and I shouldn't be. I can understand your frustration. I would submit, however, that many people's facination with "Azincourt," Poitiers, and Crécy stem from a love of the English longbow and not from a love of killing Frenchmen.
No wonder before the battle the French said that they would cut the first three fingers off the archers' right hand. The archer was bane on the existence of all knights.
Nothing to add. Its needs more bravery to fight hand to hand, like the french knights, than from a distance, like the archers. now, if you say that the french knights were not very clever, I agree...
@1piazzola Didn't the French learn anything from Poitiers and Crecy on the advantage that the longbowmen gave to the English army? If they didn't, they should have.
@1piazzola In response to that comment about archers not being brave and not fighting hand to hand. The archers did fight hand to hand in both the battle of agincourt and at Crecy, they ran out of arrows and used pickaxes, hammers, daggers, rocks, whatever they could use to fight the French Knights
Ignore @1piazzola...He's just a sore Frenchman. Didn't the French change the name from Agincourt to Azincourt..?? Surprisingly the French have erected a monument to this battle. Apparently the area has changed very little from the time the battle was fought.
TheDepotCat 1 year ago
@TheDepotCat
No, it'is always "Azincourt".
The sore Frenchman.
1piazzola 1 year ago
Oh the slaughter
HouseTribe1 1 year ago
The brave knigths used swords. Bow is the weapon of cowards. Cowards won...
1piazzola 1 year ago
@1piazzola I'd think twice before I'd call any who fought thus "cowards." I've been decorated for valor in combat and even I am not convinced that I'd stand as firmly as these men did who faced such a cavalry charge by the "tanks" of the day. These were different times, to be sure, and we shouldn't be too quick to judge so harshly from the comfort of our armchairs.
cbrusharmy 1 year ago
@cbrusharmy I apologize il I have offended you., my father told me that English are brave soldiers. But I'm sick to hear celebrate Poitiers, Crécy, Azincourt : stupid, stupid french knights! Easy, easy victory of the bow upon the sword! Sorry, I am indeed a sore Frenchie (or Froggy).
1piazzola 1 year ago
@1piazzola No, I'm not offended, and I shouldn't be. I can understand your frustration. I would submit, however, that many people's facination with "Azincourt," Poitiers, and Crécy stem from a love of the English longbow and not from a love of killing Frenchmen.
cbrusharmy 1 year ago
@cbrusharmy "Frustration" il a bit exaggerated. I don't think to Azincourt very often...
1piazzola 1 year ago
GREAT POEM
etelonlongbows 1 year ago
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etelonlongbows 1 year ago
No wonder before the battle the French said that they would cut the first three fingers off the archers' right hand. The archer was bane on the existence of all knights.
DarkWolfen 1 year ago
@DarkWolfen
Yes. Sword il the weapon of braves, bow the weapon of cowards. Cowards won.
1piazzola 1 year ago
@1piazzola So I guess cannon on the battlefield in the civil war is cowardly.
JimmySmers 1 year ago
@JimmySmers
Nothing to add. Its needs more bravery to fight hand to hand, like the french knights, than from a distance, like the archers. now, if you say that the french knights were not very clever, I agree...
1piazzola 1 year ago
@1piazzola Didn't the French learn anything from Poitiers and Crecy on the advantage that the longbowmen gave to the English army? If they didn't, they should have.
DarkWolfen 1 year ago
@DarkWolfen
You are perfectly right. See my answer to JimmySmers, just above. Poor valiant and stupid french chivalry...
1piazzola 1 year ago
@1piazzola In response to that comment about archers not being brave and not fighting hand to hand. The archers did fight hand to hand in both the battle of agincourt and at Crecy, they ran out of arrows and used pickaxes, hammers, daggers, rocks, whatever they could use to fight the French Knights
MrStarbuck123 1 year ago
@MrStarbuck123
Yes, to finish off the knighs when they were down and unable to pick themselves up because the weight of the armour.
1piazzola 1 year ago
@1piazzola They should have been brave enough to fight without armour then. You have your Austerlitz, we have our agincourt
MrStarbuck123 1 year ago
@MrStarbuck123
All right, I agree. Besides I feel a little ridiculous to argue with such energy about a so distant event-
1piazzola 1 year ago
as a person of irish descent i can't help wondering what might have been had the battle gone the other way
misteromeara 2 years ago
"..Marcheth towards Agincourt, In happy hour.."
Who knows, if the happy hour had lasted a bit longer, the English binge drinkers would have lost ;)
NielsEbbesen 2 years ago
Tactically, probably not very much. The main impact of the battle was that the English seemed to have 'God' on their side.
pervious1 2 years ago
He is one of my ancestors
TylerDRAYTON 3 years ago
this is sad
hybridz10 3 years ago
what are you on about?
robinofleiceste 3 years ago