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

A short song about a long war.

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[vanriku]

What movie was this btw?

[historyteachers]

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

[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!

[historyteachers]

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

[irishmania94]

yes, once the archers ran out of arrows ( which wudda happened fairly fast like ) the archer wud pick up axs, daggers, maces weapons of fallen french knights and 3 or 4 archers wud take one knight between them. keep in mind the french were exhausted from there run across the muddy battle field and once they were down they were not getting up (the armor was incredibly heavy, and even for the knights who cud sprint in full armor it was too much ) once down a swift jab through the visor killed them

[uafchris]

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

[summersrain]

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

[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

[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.

[ErikHgk]

Very good to see after i read the book: Azincourt

[WulfstanHrafnsson]

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

[WulfstanHrafnsson]

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

[cardcollector6794]

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

[uncletomalex]

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