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Agincourt
Henry V and the battle that made England
By Barker, Juliet R. V.
- ISBN
- 978-0-31601-503-5
- Publisher
- New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2006.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2006
October 25, 1415, St. Crispin�s Day. Several thousand exhausted and diseased English soldiers, along with many nobles and King Henry V himself, were desperately trying to get to the safety of Calais when they came up against a far greater number of French forces, who were well rested and well fed. Miraculously, the English not only won the ensuing battle of Agincourt but destroyed most of France�s nobility, almost all of whom were in the French forces. Barker (Wordsworth: A Life ), a medievalist by training...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
