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The La Giraudiere South West France Travel and Holiday Partners in England
 Many links and partnership
issues exists with France and England but unfortunatley our history
together has been of wars and battles none more famous than The Battle
of Agincourt fought on 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day),
in northern France as part of the Hundred Years' War. The armies
involved were those of the English King Henry V and Charles VI of
France. Charles did not command his army himself, as he was
incapacitated. The French were commanded by the Constable Charles
d'Albret and various prominent French noblemen of the Armagnac party.
The battle is notable for the use of the English longbow,
which the English used in very large numbers, with longbowmen forming
the vast majority of their army. The battle was also immortalised by
William Shakespeare as the centrepiece of his play Henry V. Henry V
invaded France for several reasons. He hoped that by fighting a popular
foreign war, he would strengthen his position at home. He
wanted to
improve his finances by gaining revenue-producing lands, lands he
believed had been stolen from him by the King of France. As was the
custom at the time internationally nobles taken prisoner would be
ransomed by the relatives of the loser in exchange for their return.
Evidence also suggests that several lords in the region of Normandy
promised Henry their lands when they died, but the King of France took
their lands and described it as 'confiscating'. |
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Henry's army landed in
northern France on 13 August 1415 and besieged the port of Harfleur
with an army of about 12,000. The siege took longer than expected. The
town surrendered on 22 September, and the English army did not leave
until 8 October.
The campaign season was coming to an end, and the English army had
suffered many casualties through disease. Henry decided to move most of
his army (roughly 7,000) to the port of Calais, the English stronghold
in northern France, where they could re-equip over the winter.
During the siege, the French had been able to call up a large feudal army which d'Albret deployed between Harfleur and Calais, mirroring the English manoeuvres along the river Somme, thus preventing them from reaching Calais without a major confrontation. The result was that d'Albret managed to force Henry into fighting a battle that, given the state of his army, he would have preferred to avoid. The English had very little food, had marched 260 miles in two-and-a-half weeks, were suffering from sickness such as dysentery, and faced large numbers of experienced, well equipped Frenchmen.
However, the French suffered a catastrophic defeat, not just in terms of the sheer numbers killed, but because of the number of high-ranking nobles lost. Henry was able to fulfil all his objectives. He was recognised by the French in the Treaty of Troyes (1420) as the regent and heir to the French throne. This was cemented by his marriage to Catherine of Valois, the daughter of King Charles VI. ~ We will be publishing more of this article within our Article Section at LaGiraudiere.com
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