Maria Choate wrote: > I would love to know more about the "Battle of Agincourt" and welcome > a > suggestion for a book to request into the local (very tiny) library > about > it. Thanks - Maria Maria, I started buying history books at library sales and have about 20-30. I checked a History of England with no luck but the one next to that, A History of Western Civilization, had "Agincort" in the index. I got to use my new toy that I installed yesterday, HP ScanJet 4c, to copy the following. I hope it helps. Vaughn The following is an excerpt from a chapter on The Hundred Year's War (1337-1453). Fourth Phase of the War (1415-1429) Encouraged by the division in France and a gradually evolving Burgundian alliance, the ambitious Henry V (14131422) resolved to reopen the conflict and press again the English claims to the French throne. After a secret understanding with Burgundy, Henry, with a well equipped army of about 11,500 men, invaded Normandy in 1415. Here be besieged and took Harfleur at the mouth of the Seine with the assistance of cannon. With a reduced force of about 6000 men, Henry swung through Normandy and Picardy in the direction of Calais. At Agincourt in Artois a large French force estimated to have been over three times the size of Henry's army caught up with him. Henry V had taken up a strong position with about 1100 yards of easily defensible front. The English first simulated an advance and then re-formed on the defensive, setting long pointed stakes to their front, implanted at an angle in the direction of the French. As the French cavalry charged in disorderly fashion across the muddy ground, most of them were mowed down or halted by deadly discharges of English e arrows, and the horses of those who got e through were halted or impaled by the stakes. Agincourt was a repetition of Poitiers and Cr6cy. English losses have been estimated at 115, French at 6000. Henry V renewed the attack in 1417 Between 1417 and 1419 he conquered Normandy. Meanwhile the Burgundians captured King Charles VI. For a while the Burgundians and the English contested for control of northern France. After the murder of Duke John the Fearless of Burgundy by the Dauphin's men during an interview on a bridge at Montcreau in 1419, the Burgundians went over entirely to the English side and supported the candidacy of Henry V for the French crown. In the consequent Treaty of Troyes (1420), Charles VI and Queen Isabelle, with Burgundian support, approved the marriage of their daughter, Catherine, to Henry V, whom they designated as interim regent of France and heir to the French throne. The Dauphin Charles was "for his enormous crimes" disinherited, and if Henry and Catherine had a son, the latter was eventually to succeed to the French throne. But the Dauphin Charles would not consent to his disinheritance, and held out in central southern France. Known derisively as the "King of Bourges," the Dauphin was strongly supported by factions in central France as well as by some French elements elsewhere. In the territory south of the Loire, Charles maintained a dissolute migratory court, dominated by favorites and full of intrigues.