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England's Greatest Victory Against France | Agincourt 1415

October 25th, 1415. Saint Crispin's Day. A muddy field in northern France. Six thousand exhausted English soldiers watched thirty-six thousand French knights form battle lines across the valley. The English were sick, starving, trapped. The French were confident, armored, outnumbering them six to one. Then twenty-nine-year-old King Henry V stepped forward and delivered the speech that would echo through six hundred years of history. "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." The French expected a massacre. They gambled over who would capture King Henry and collect his ransom. Their cavalry charged first—thousands of armored horsemen thundering toward the English flanks. They didn't account for the mud. Or the longbow. English archers could loose twelve arrows per minute. Five thousand bowmen launched twenty-five thousand arrows every minute. The sky darkened. Horses screamed. Knights fell. The cavalry charge collapsed before reaching the English line. Then the French dismounted knights advanced—the finest warriors in Europe, wearing sixty pounds of plate armor, marching through thick, sucking mud while arrows rained down. They were exhausted before they even reached the English. When they finally closed, English men-at-arms met them with axes and hammers. And the longbowmen, dropping their bows, waded into the melee with mallets and daggers. Henry V fought in the front line. A French knight struck his helmet so hard it bent the gold crown attached to it. But the king kept fighting. His soldiers saw their king refusing to abandon them. If he would fight, so would they. By sunset, six thousand Frenchmen lay dead in the mud—including the Constable of France, three dukes, six counts, ninety barons, and two thousand knights. The English lost fewer than four hundred. It was the most one-sided victory in medieval warfare. Shakespeare immortalized it 184 years later in Henry V. The St. Crispin's Day speech—"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers"—became one of the most famous passages in English literature. Winston Churchill knew it by heart. It represents something fundamental in English character: the brave underdog, facing overwhelming odds, refusing to surrender. This is the story of Agincourt—the battle that made Henry V a legend, the victory that proved the longbow could defeat armored cavalry, and the day when mud, arrows, and sheer courage changed the course of the Hundred Years' War. 📜 About Britain's History: We cover the forgotten battles, campaigns, and commanders that shaped British military history. From English Civil War to Napoleonic Wars, from medieval sieges to Victorian campaigns – every video provides detailed tactical analysis with cinematic visuals. Subscribe for deep dives into the warfare that built Britain. 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for more forgotten British battles 👍 LIKE if you enjoyed this video 💬 COMMENT which battle we should cover next #britainshistory #Agincourt