Happy (belated) St. Crispin's Day!

[thehos_gendar]

Yesterday, 590 years ago, the French and English bashed it out on the field of Agincourt. Nearly two hundred years later, William Shakespeare penned the famous speech which we quote from often, and from which came the title of a certain 10-part series which is a favorite of many of us

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[tammanyfirebhoy]

Sure knocked some sense into the heads of French tacticians, who finally realized that piece-meal attacks, even with mounted knights, won't penetrate a well-defended line.

"...almost without seeing the men who slew them." Gotta love arrowclouds.

No one cares about Crécy in 1346, though. Why?

[rosebud_in_june]

I do, I do!