AGINCOURT

äzhăNkoorˈ, modern Fr. Azincourt, village, Pas-de-Calais dept., N France. There, on Oct. 25, 1415, Henry V of England defeated a much larger French army in the Hundred Years War (1337–1453). His success, which was due mainly to the superiority of the masses of English longbow men over the heavily armored French knights, demonstrated the obsolescence of the methods of warfare of the age of chivalry. The victory enabled the English to conquer much of France. The battle is the central scene of Shakespeare's drama Henry V.

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The Hundred Years War: A Wider Focus
Book by L. J. Andrew Villalon, Donald J. Kagay; Brill, 2005
Subjects: France--Foreign Relations--Great Britain, France--History, Military--1328-1589, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--France, Great Britain--History, Military--1066-1485, Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453
...western Europe rolled out in the shadow of Agincourt. Henry V (1413 1422) spent the rest...such a favorable beginning. 1 After Agincourt, the French were never willing to risk...outnumbered the English were on the field of Agincourt cannot be determined with any certainty...
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Gesta Henrici Quinti: The Deeds of Henry the Fifth
Book by Frank Taylor, John S. Roskell; Clarendon Press, 1975
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Henry V, 1413-1422, Henry--V--King Of England--1387-1422, Manuscripts, Medieval--England--London, Middle Ages--Sources, Normandy (France)--History
...2, 51 n. 5 Le Fevre, Jean, and Agincourt campaign, xxxiv -vi, 20 n. 1, 23...146 n. 2, 148 n. 1, 168 n. 1; and Agincourt campaign, xxxii -iii, xxxiv , xxxv...6 n. 2, 132 n. 1, 134 n. 1; and Agincourt campaign, xxxii -iii, 22 n. 1, 50...
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Richard Mansfield: The Man and the Actor
Book by Paul Wilstach; Scribners Sons, 1908
Subjects: Actors--Biography, Mansfield, Richard--1857-1907, Theater--United States
...6 A view in Picardy. Act III. Scene 1 The Dauphins tent, near Agincourt. Night. Scene 2 The English lines, near Agincourt. Night. Scene 3 The English position at Agincourt. Scene 4 Part of the field of battle. tableu the battle of agincourt...
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Literary Criticisms
Book by Terence L. Connolly, Francis L. Thompson; E. P. Dutton, 1948
Subjects: Books--Reviews, English Literature--History And Criticism, Fiction, Literature--History And Criticism
With their pikes and bills brown, How the French were beat down, Shot by our Bowmen? Agincourt, Agincourt! Know ye not Agincourt? Never to be forgot, Or known to no man? Where English cloth-yard arrows Killed the French like...
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The Hundred Years War
Book by Robin Neillands; Routledge, 1990
Subjects: France--History--14th Century, France--History--15th Century, Great Britain--History--14th Century, Great Britain--History--15th Century, Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453
...the Hundred Years War on the eve of Agincourt in 1415, is actually quite logical...stops and starts, but the Battle of Agincourt was a turning point. Although it did not seem so at the time, Agincourt marked a reversal in English fortunes...
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Imperatives of Leadership: Henry at Agincourt
Journal article by Charles W. Callahan; Military Review, Vol. 79, 1999
Subjects: Henry V, King of England (1387-1422), Leadership, Military history, Military training
...Imperatives of Leadership: Henry at Agincourt by Charles W. Callahan In Autumn 1415, outside the small village of Agincourt in northem France, Englands King...Shakespeares account of Henrys actions at Agincourt, these imperatives can be summarized...
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"Fellows of Infinite Tongue": Henry V and the King's English
Journal article by P.K. Ayers; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 34, 1994
Subjects: Agincourt, Battle of, 1415--History, European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600, Henry V (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...and linguistic, which the triumph of Agincourt had in some sense apparently closed...formal level, of course, the triumph of Agincourt is itself the de facto evidence of the...considered. Henry declares the triumph of Agincourt to be divinely inspired, and threatens...
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Playing the Game: Branagh's Henry V
Journal article by Michael Pursell; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 20, 1992
Subjects: Drama, Games, Heroism & heroes, Motion pictures, War
...forward to that long tracking shot after Agincourt. This latter is quite clearly a swipe...uncut and unsubverted his speech before Agincourt which culminates in the impassioned tears...over as Batman. Consider the French at Agincourt. As the constable dies, the French...
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Whose Saint Crispins' Day Is It?: Shoemaking, Holiday Making, and the Politics of Memory in Early Modern England
Journal article by Alison A. Chapman; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 54, 2001
Subjects: Holidays--Political aspects, Shoemakers--Political activity, Social status--Political aspects
...English valor and victory on the field of Agincourt (4.3.40-43). Holinsheds Chronicles...mentioned on the eve of the more momentous Agincourt battle. Shakespeares decision to downplay Saint Georges intercesso ry powers at Agincourt is all the more striking in light of...
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Rabbits and Ducks: Olivier, Branagh, and Henry V
Journal article by Sara Munson Deats; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 20, 1992
Subjects: Drama, Fairy tales, Motion pictures, War
...in the quasi-realism dominating the Agincourt battle scenes, the type of romanticized...thus contemporaneous with the Battle of Agincourt (1415)(Geduld 18-19). Olivier...of both films is the great Battle of Agincourt, and no sequence more graphically illustrates...
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magazine articles on: Agincourt  - 131 results

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A Grand Strategy of Transformation
Magazine article by John Lewis Gaddis; Foreign Policy, November 2002
Subjects: Bush, George W.--Foreign relations, Hussein, Saddam--Foreign relations, National security--Analysis, United Nations--Management
...them. For Henry, the demonstration was Agincourt, the famous victory over the French...The Bush administration got a taste of Agincourt with its victory over the Taliban at...tyrant, if we can repeat the Afghan Agincourt on the banks of the Euphrates, then...
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Medals of His Defeats: Our Author Takes the Great Man Down a Peg or Two - and Still Finds That Churchill Was a Great Man
Magazine article by Christopher Hitchens; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 289, April 2002
Subjects: British history, Churchill, Winston, Prime ministers--United Kingdom
...the French throne, and the scene at Agincourt involving the ruthless massacre of all...numerical odds against the English at Agincourt ("we few, we happy few"), or the...eventual triumph, as it was in the case of Agincourt. But the political underlay was epigrammatically...
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The Medals of His Defeats: Our Author Takes the Great Man Down a Peg or Two-And Still Finds That Churchill Was a Great Man
Magazine article by Christopher Hitchens; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 289, April 2002
Subjects: Books--Criticism and interpretation, Churchill, Winston--Biography, Churchill: A Biography (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...the French throne, and the scene at Agincourt involving the ruthless massacre of all...numerical odds against the English at Agincourt ("we few, we happy few"), or the...eventual triumph, as it was in the case of Agincourt. But the political underlay was epigrammatically...
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The Human Life Foundation: Great Defender of Life Dinner
Magazine article; Human Life Review, Vol. 33, Winter 2007
Subjects: Foundations, Speeches
...491st anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt. On this same date in 1854 the Light Brigade charged at Balaklava. Agincourt was a great day for those on the...of pro-life forces is to have an Agincourt, despite all odds, and to avoid...
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Shakespeare Goes to Prison
Magazine article by Steve Hayes; American Theatre, Vol. 13, October 1996
Subjects: Prisoners as artists--Evaluation, Prisoners--Recreational aspects, Prisons--Recreational aspects
...prison by Steve Hayes Slouching toward Agincourt in an L.A. County lockup FEB. 10...minute play barrels swiftly toward Agincourt; Act 4 brings a flurry of offstage whispers...play, Crispins Day and all, and an Agincourt mood of against-all-odds triumph...
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newspaper articles on: Agincourt  - 474 results

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English Heroes of Agincourt? They Are Just War Criminals (Say the French); Taking Aim: The English Archers Were Highly Skilled
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 25, 2008
Subjects: Battle of Agincourt, 1415
English Heroes of Agincourt? They Are Just War Criminals (Say...very different view of the Battle of Agincourt - claiming that English soldiers acted...conference at the Medieval History Museum in Agincourt that the stories that Henrys troops...
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Ploughmen, Peasants and Boys Aged 12 ... Unsung Heroes of the Carnage at Agincourt; Named after Six Centuries, a Very English Band of Brothers
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 23, 2009
...Unsung Heroes of the Carnage at Agincourt; Named after Six Centuries, a Very...Brothers. Byline: by Christopher Hart AGINCOURT. After nearly six centuries, its still...been Welsh, like many of the heroes of Agincourt. Others are somehow quintessentially...
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Agincourt Bucks Trend as It Takes on Extra Staff
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 10, 2009
Subjects: Williams, Nigel
Agincourt Bucks Trend as It Takes on Extra Staff...Aled Blake CHARTERED accountancy firm Agincourt is expanding its staffing levels after...been very successful in spreading the Agincourt message to our core market since I joined...
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When the Underdogs Had Their Day; Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle by Juliet Barker (Little Brown, [Pounds Sterling
Newspaper article; October 10, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews
When the Underdogs Had Their Day; Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle...Sterling20). Byline: JONATHAN SUMPTION Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle...nations have been wars. The battle of Agincourt was fought nearly six centuries ago...
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WAR CRIME? IT WAS OUR FINEST HOUR; Crowning Glory: Kenneth Branagh in His Film Version of Shakespeares Henry V Dramatising the 15th-Century Battle of Agincourt
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 27, 2008
Subjects: Motion pictures, Movies, War crimes
...Dramatising the 15th-Century Battle of Agincourt. Byline: BERNARD CORNWELL LEGEND says the Battle of Agincourt was won by stalwart English archers...horseback, but very few men were mounted at Agincourt. The French came on foot and the battle...
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encyclopedia articles on: Agincourt  - 10 results

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Agincourt
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AGINCOURT azhaNkoor , modern Fr. Azincourt, village, Pas-de-Calais dept...is the central scene of Shakespeares drama Henry V. See J. Barker, Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England (2006...
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Boucicaut
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1396), he was ransomed. He was governor (1401 7) of Genoa, then under French rule, was captured by the English at Agincourt (1415), and died in England. He wrote several ballads and other poems. He commissioned the book of hours that is named...
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Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1414) duke of Gloucester and earl of Cambridge. He served in Henrys French campaigns and was wounded at the battle of Agincourt (1415). In 1420 21 he remained in England as regent during Henrys absence. In 1422, when Henry was succeeded by his infant...
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Fastolf, Sir John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...for his long service in the latter part of the Hundred Years War. He was knighted some time prior to 1418 for service at Agincourt (1415) and in other engagements, acted as governor of Anjou and Maine (1423 26), and was made (1426) a Knight of the...
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Hundred Years War
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...territory. In 1415, Henry V of England renewed the English claims, took Harfleur, and defeated Frances best knights at Agincourt . By 1419 he had subdued Normandy, with the connivance of John the Fearless , duke of Burgundy. Philip the Good , successor...
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