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25 October is anniversary of the famous battle of Agincourt in 1415.

Celebrated as one of the finest examples of a victory against all odds, the English defeated a much larger French army.

Let's explore this battle and why the French failed! 🧵

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2022-10-26

Agincourt y un Ratón Cruzado. Parte de la serie Marginalia medieval.
Lápiz de color sobre papel.

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2022-09-20

Sometimes it looks good and sometimes it goes into endless noodle
("purple dragon medieval tapestry battle scene bayeux agincourt art gallery tapestry western dragon")

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2022-09-14

Anyway these are Boden and Cynric (he/him & they/them), they met only once, when they fought on opposite sides in the battle of Agincourt on October 25th, 1415 🥰

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2022-08-03

“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.” Join & I on Sunday to unmask the 1415 Battle of Agincourt as a brutal brawl, far removed from the speeches and glam of film and theatre. This might be my favourite tour yet. It’s certainly the earliest https://t.co/VDqWLG484a

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2022-05-18

I don’t know why January Jones is rocking Henry V at Agincourt colours, Anon…

But i’m here for it.

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2022-04-13

Memories of the Battle of Agincourt today as it is St Crispin's Day. The patron saint of leatherworkers is the appropriate crest for the Incorporation of Cordiners in Glasgow.

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2021-10-25

captured) and Agincourt had caused the French to disassociate the king from battle. The French king therefore was forced to further fall onto religion as a justification for the crown while kings of England became much more closely associated with governmental and military

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2021-06-20

In the 100 years war the entire French aristocracy was almost completely wiped out.

At the battle of Poitiers alone, it's estimated that around 40% of the French knighthood disappeared and at the battle of Agincourt that number is between 70-80%.

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2021-06-20

the kits I used are Perry Miniatures French Battalion + their Agincourt foot knights.

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2021-04-27

What you doing agincourt
(Younger agincourt after having slit his throat)

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2021-04-01

21 March 1413. Henry V became King of England. He’s best known for his victory at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 and immortalised in Shakespeare’s famous play. He was succeeded by Henry VI, aged just 9 months, who ruled from 1422 to 1461.

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2021-03-21

Agincourt and pogred having a candlelit dinner

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2021-01-10

I start out wanting to make a fun little redesign of the Grey Warden rogue armour, I end up with an English crossbowman from the Battle of Agincourt (1415)

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2020-10-28

The Battles of Castillon and Agincourt by Ugo Pinson (2016)

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2020-10-17

napoleon did agincourt.

english arrows cant pierce steel plate

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2020-02-15

is right to point out that Dafydd Gam's association with grew with the telling. Here's a brief THREAD explaining how. 1/

https://t.co/miIzMkUQuu

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2019-10-25

OTD, 1415, the Battle of
L: miniature from C15th French manuscript, shows evenly matched battle (far from truth).
R: John Gilbert’s “Morning of the Battle of Agincourt” (1884, Guildhall Art Gallery) imagines a dejected English army, knowing it is impossibly outnumbered

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2019-10-25

Morning of the Battle of Agincourt, 25 October 1415 by English painter John Gilbert

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2019-10-25