British victory at Agincourt may be punctured by academia - The Denver Post

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British victory at Agincourt may be punctured by academia

MAISONCELLE, France — The heavy, clay-laced mud behind the cattle pen on Antoine Renault's farm looks as treacherous as it must have nearly 600 years ago, when King Henry V rode from a spot near here to lead a sodden and exhausted English army against a French force that was said to outnumber his by as much as five to one.

No one can ever take away the shocking victory by Henry and his "band of brothers," as William Shakespeare would famously call them, on St. Crispin's Day, Oct. 25, 1415.

They devastated a force of heavily armored French nobles who had ...

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