Agincourt
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A village of northern France west-northwest of Arras. On October 25, 1415, Henry V of England decisively defeated a much larger French army here. The victory showed the effectiveness of troops equipped with longbows over heavily armored knights.
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Agincourt (äzhăNkūr'), modern Fr. Azincourt, village, Pas-de-Calais dept., N France. There, during the Hundred Years War, Henry V of England with some 6,000 men defeated a French army six times that size on Oct. 25, 1415. His success, which was due mainly to the superiority of the masses of English longbow men over the heavily armored French knights, demonstrated the obsolescence of the methods of warfare of the age of chivalry. The victory enabled the English to conquer much of France. The battle is the central scene of Shakespeare's drama Henry V.
Bibliography
See J. Barker, Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England (2006).
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Agincourt may refer to:
Places:
- Agincourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, French commune
- Agincourt, Ontario
- Agincourt, aka Pengjia Islet, north of Taiwan
Titled works:
- Agincourt, American edition of Azincourt (novel) by Bernard Cornwell
- Agincourt, an 1844 book by George Payne Rainsford James
- Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England, an 2006 book by Juliet Barker
Other:
- HMS Agincourt, several ships of the Royal Navy named after the battle
- Agincourt (band), a 1960s British band
- Agincourt House, Monmouth, Wales, a 17th century building
- Agincourt GO Station, a railway station in Toronto
See also
- The Agincourt Carol, English folk song
- Azincourt (disambiguation)
- Agencourt, Côte-d'Or, France
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n. - Agincourt
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n. - אגינקורט
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Agincourt Song
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