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Agincourt, 1415 (Events (French cavalry tried to attack English bowmen,…
Agincourt, 1415
Events
French cavalry tried to attack English bowmen, but the stakes and churned up field stopped them
French dismounted knights attacked but struggled in the mud and with bombardment of arrows. Battlefield also bunched them up which made it difficult to fight
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more French kept joining which made it more cramped and many drowned in mud. English bow men also joined fighting with daggers
French didnt attack as English had hoped so they advanced to a position where their longbows were in range
Lots of French casualties and they retreated. However a small group attacked their baggage camp, but Henry V killed their prisoners which made the retreat
Henry V army arrangement
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chose to fight on freshly ploughed fields, hard to walk on
Defensive position - Woodland narrowed battlefield, which compacted the french and protected bowmen
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Typical
proportions of Longbow men and knights, knights fighting dismounted in centre and archers on the flanks
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Typical campaign: siege, pillage and raids
Composition
English
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9,000 knights (2000) and infrantry men (7000)
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