![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although the progress of the English forces through the French countryside was complicated by weather, geography, dysentery, and some erratic though determined French resistance, the English would not be denied their ultimate destination - Agincourt. Proceeding immediately thereafter from the coastal battlefield, the heroic foot soldiers, long bow archers, and mounted knights moved unstoppably northward. Landing several days later near the port city of Harflour, the impressively armed and well-supplied medieval army from England ran into stubborn resistance which they quickly overwhelmed. ![]() Enthusiastically inflamed by a righteous pride in their upstart English nation and further motivated by their singular dedication to one of their country's most remarkable warrior-kings, the English army was undertaking the journey to France for a fairly straightforward reason: The King of England was determined to finally settle a long-standing dispute with France over territorial rights and sovereign authority. Not surprisingly, the army's destination was France, the country with which England had long been arguing and battling. On the 11th of August in 1415, a fully equipped army of at least 6,000 Englishmen set sail aboard a motley fleet of privately-owned cogs, carracks, and galleys from Southampton, England. Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England by Juliet Barker ![]()
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