Agincourt

Noun

Meaning

a battle in northern France in which English longbowmen under Henry V decisively defeated a much larger French army in 1415

Examples

Although a Franco-Scottish army was successful at the Battle of Baugé (1421), the humiliating defeats of Poitiers (1356) and Agincourt (1415) forced the French nobility to realise they could not stand just as armoured knights without an organised army. Source: Internet

Agincourt House (next to the Lower Ferry) is also 14th century. Source: Internet

It has no etymological connection in French with Agincourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle (attested as Egincourt 875), which is derived from another Germanic male name *Ingin-. Source: Internet

Barker states that some knights, encumbered by their armour, actually drowned in their helmets.sfn Fighting Opening moves "Morning of the Battle of Agincourt, 25th October 1415", painted by Sir John Gilbert in the 19th century. Source: Internet

However this did not necessarily make the longbow ineffective; thousands of longbowmen were deployed in the English victory at Agincourt against plate armoured French knights in 1415. Source: Internet

Nevertheless, at the battle of Agincourt in 1415 and for some decades thereafter, English longbowmen continued to be an effective battlefield force. Source: Internet

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