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Agincourt 1415
Triumph against the odds
1991
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3.78
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Osprey's Campaign title for one of the most important campaigns of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453). Agincourt is one of the most evocative names in English military history. Henry V's forces were tired, hungry, and faced a French army three to six times more numerous. However, they possessed several advantages, and English success resulted from the combination of heavily armoured men-at-arms with troops armed with the infamous longbow - the havoc this weapon wreaked was crucial. Using original fifteenth century evidence, including the surviving French battle plan and the accounts of men present in both armies, this title discusses the lead-up to the battle, the tactical dispositions of the two forces and the reasons for the ultimate English success.
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Matthew Bennett
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Matthew Bennett, MA FSA RHistS Matthew is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London) and of the Royal Historical Society. He acts as External Examiner to the Swansea University War and Society BA and MA course where he has been appointed a Fellow of the Callaghan Centre for Conflict Studies and is a visiting lecturer to the Chester University MA in Military Studies. He is Trustee of the Battlefields Trust and a founder member (although not yet a badged guide!) of the Guild of Battlefield Guides. He is also member of numerous historical, archaeological and literary societies and lectures on a wide of range of his interests to both professional and amateur societies. Over the last two decades he has appeared regularly on television programmes about military history.

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