Jamie McDonald, of Powell River, B.C. has been making longbows in the traditional style for the past nine years. McDonald uses Pacific yew trees to construct his bows, and has gained a reputation as ...
Outnumbered and outmanoeuvred, when Henry V won the Battle of Agincourt it was a famous victory in the Hundred Years War between the English and the French. And it was all because of the humble ...
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The genius medieval battle tactic that defeated the French at Agincourt
Was it the mud? Was it the longbow? Or were French battlefield decisions the real reason they lost? Join medieval historian Matt Lewis as he breaks down the battlefield tactics that shaped the ...
The All Creatures Great and Small actor Robert Hardy will be visiting The Longbow Shop on the Wirral to mark the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt. Mr Hardy will be giving a talk on The ...
Friday was St. George’s Day, England’s national day. But here, on the site of one of the medieval world’s more devastating battles and an inspirational font of military heroism across the ...
On the dank evening of October 24, 1415, the French had every reason for confidence. Their force of 20,000 soldiers was four times that of the perfidious English invaders under King Henry V. Henry’s ...
For every English boy, there is an instant when it's two o'clock on an October afternoon in 1415. The decisive English victory at Agincourt, with the annihilation of the numerically superior French ...
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