The battle of Agincourt, whose 600th anniversary falls on St Crispin’s Day, 25 October, is still tabloid gold, Gotcha! with chivalry. Henry V’s victory in the mud of Picardy remains the classic ...
To date, five Royal Navy warships have been named HMS Agincourt in honor of the Battle of Agincourt of 1415. However, it was the World War I battleship that surely would have impressed King Henry V, ...
The seventh and last in class of Astute SSN submarines will be named Agincourt it has been revealed, following a £1.5 billion ($2 billion) contract awarded to BAE Systems by the UK MoD. Financial ...
The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages by Miri Rubin 320pp, Allen Lane, £25 The Hollow Crown is part of Penguin's new History of Britain, of which half the volumes have been ...
Legend says the Battle of Agincourt was won by stalwart English archers. It was not. In the end it was won by men using lead-weighted hammers, poleaxes, mauls and falcon-beaks, the ghastly ...
The battle of Agincourt was fought on a muddy field in northern France 600 years ago on Sunday – St Crispin’s Day, October 25th 1415. Kings, princes, dukes and nobles abounded on either side. It ...
On his first visit to Buoux in France Alexander Megos repeated a slew of classic testpieces. His standout ascent is a flash of ‘Agincourt’, the historic 8c established by Ben Moon in 1989. Although ...