Conflict·b. 1415
Battle of Agincourt
Overview
On 25 October 1415, Henry V's exhausted and outnumbered English army won the most lopsided victory of the Hundred Years' War. Trapped between the woods of Agincourt and the marshy Tramecourt valley, the heavily armored French knights bogged in mud while English longbow arrows fell among them at a thousand-volley-per-minute rate. Casualty estimates vary wildly but the French lost much of their nobility; the English lost perhaps a hundred dead.
