ISBN: 9781150533983

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... denied that Agincourt was a marvellous feat of arms, far more astounding than Crecy and even than Poitiers. In those old battles the English had fought in good positions, with the advantage of the strict defensive, the order that best suited their national tactics, the combination of bow and lance. Henry had been forced into the far more difficult task of fighting an offensive battle on a plain level field. The victory had been won at close quarters by hand-to-hand fighting; the bow had only had its chance at the beginning of the action, when the French cavalry were repulsed. Such a triumph silenced all criticism. Yet it is necessary to point out that the famous march from Harfleur to Calais was a most perilous undertaking, and, even when it was completed and the battle had been won, nothing was secured for Henry save a moral ascendency over 1415 RETURN OF THE KING. 259 the enemy, which made them as reluctant to fight pitched battles CHAP, as their fathers had been in the days of Charles V. This was a dubious advantage, since pitched battles suited the English invader, and the absence of them had been his ruin in the days of John of Gaunt and Thomas of Woodstock. The capture of Harfleur was a solid advantage; it gave England a second Calais. But it would by itself have failed to justify the waste of men and money in the expedition. Agincourt secured nothing but the ransom-money of the captives. It might well, if the French noblesse had been less hopelessly factious, have terrified the whole realm of Charles VI. into union, and rendered further English invasions hopeless. That a great career of conquest still lay before Henry V. was due to the treason of Burgundy and the rancour of the Orleanists rather than to his own achievements.... Dolphus Torrey, Charles Oman, Books, History, The history of England, from the accession of Richard II to the death of Richard III (1377-1485) Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1150533986

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ISBN: 1150533986

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ISBN: 1150533986

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