Anyone ever studied this specific battle? I'm doing an essay on how people perceived the battle and Henry V, and how views of the battle/ Henry V have changed over time. For example, Shakespeare's play Henry V, and the film Henry V made in 1989; along with books and essays written about the battle. Anyone know any good books as well?

Thanks

Google is your friend! After action view shows the French did almost nothing right, and the English only did what they had to do to have any chance of even surviving the battle. The English did not need Henry V to win the day, any competent commander would have sufficed, since the French blew everything up, but having him didn't hurt morale! Again check Google. Scads of info and leads to books and such! Good Luck sir!

The best book I've read on this was
Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle by Juliet Barker

Look on Amazon, I think it's now available in kindle format.

Yes.

I did a thread on this battle in the Lounge many years back when I was studying that sort of thing. You'll have to look in the archives. I'm afraid 2p2 has changed format so I'm not much help in giving tips on how to get there.

Basically, a bunch of English archers who had the runs so bad they couldn't wear pants, shooting relatively inexpensive arrows at fully armored knights and horses who outnumbered them, caused a crowd catastrophe resulting in a very one-sided victory for the English. Terrain was a key factor in this. So was weather. An excellent study in how masses of men in a confined space are vulnerable to concentrated missile fire.

Probably too late to help your essay, but thought it might be useful reading if you can find it.

Cheers for reply guys, no not too late essay is due 12 march.

AH HA!

I found it using google....


http://archives1.twoplustwo.com/show...Number=6330886

The bolded part hints at a really interesting angle on this that I saw (don't lol) on the history channel a few years ago. You may be able to find it on Google, but there was a guy who is a traffic control engineer or something who did a mathematical model of crowd behavior in confined spaces and applied it to Agincourt. I don't want to relate the study more specifically based on a hazy memory of a one minute presentation on a TV show from years ago, but, basically, inputting the weather and the terrain and the forward movement of the French force toward a barrier (the English) resulted in random mob behavior or something like that. I remember being very impressed with a novel approach to military history.