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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Hope on October 25, 2015, 11:10:03 AM

Title: Happy Agincourt Day
Post by: Hope on October 25, 2015, 11:10:03 AM

600 years ago a body of Cheshire and Welsh archers destroyed a far larger body of French knights at Agincourt.  The long bow showed its destructive abilities to the best.

Title: Re: Happy Agincourt Day
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 25, 2015, 11:20:38 AM

Hurrah for killing more efficiently

Title: Re: Happy Agincourt Day
Post by: Harrowby Hall on October 25, 2015, 04:49:55 PM

And 439 years later - on St Crispin's Day - in another belligerent activity, out of 670 men, 278 were killed or wounded and 335 horses died.

It became known as The Charge of the Light Brigade.

Something else we celebrated just a couple of days earlier was the 6019th anniversary of the creation.

Quite a week for anniversaries.