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his army were on top of a hill and they had command over the French. So the French ran at the English and then ran away, the English broke ranks and chased the French and were cut down by the French cavalry. So it wasn't his fault it was his army's lack of discipline, because they were are farmers and only a few were proper soldiers.

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