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• 1415: Henry Vs Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer: review

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  Dominic Sandbrook on Henry Vs Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer a genuinely threedimensional portrait of a man who transcended his times
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• We Missed It!

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  Golly darn gee whiz! We missed it! The Funky Heart missed out on all the festivities associated with World Heart Day , which was September 27, 2009! What was I doing on September 27th? Ha’ mercy, I can’t remember… were we supposed to exchange gifts? What’s that? Sorry folks, I hate to get you all excited, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Public Education and its Enemies

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 420
  (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) In the final scene of Shakespeare’s Henry V, the French sue for peace after Henry’s triumph at Agincourt. While the French king is away negotiating the final terms, Henry uses the opportunity to woo the King’s daughter Katherine to become his Queen. Katherine is cool to this ...
  4 weeks ago

• Revisionists Attacking Good King Hal

  
  The Pink Flamingo — Authority: 483
  Revisionist historians are at the top of the list of things that frosts The Pink Flamingos cookies, even more so than Democrats.The Pink Flamingo owes King Hal and St. Crispin an apology. I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  4 weeks ago

• Agincourt was an even fight claim historians

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  Henry Vs "happy few" were not outnumbered five to one by the French at the Battle of Agincourt as traditionally believed but were in a much more even fight according to new research.
  4 weeks ago

• Strip mining for Jesus

  
  The Goat Rope — Authority: 127
  You never know what youre going to find when you browse through the vent lines in the local paper. Occasionally, however one comes across a real gem. Heres one from the Saturday Charleston Gazette-Mail: Jesus will be awfully angry when he comes back and we didnt use the resources and the coal in the mountains that ...
  4 weeks ago

• Inside Politics

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 458
  ORATOR IN CHIEF "Benjamin Disraelis most famous advice to aspiring politicians was: Never complain and never explain. For the greatest orator of our time, a man who makes Churchill, Lincoln and Henry V at Agincourt look like first-round rejects on Orating With the Stars, Barack Obama seems to have pretty much given up ...
  4 weeks ago

• TODAY IS SAINT CRISPINs DAY

  
  Theo Spark — Authority: 631
  On this day, 25 October 1415, King Henry V of England, and his tiny army of nobles, men-at-arms and English and Welsh longbowmen, left the Flower of French Chivalry laying face down in a muddy field in Northern France near the village of Agincourt. Details . . . STORMBRINGER ...
  4 weeks ago

• Did McChrystal (or Petraeus) Read Henry V?

  
  xpostfactoid — Authority: 492
  I was astonished to read in todays Times that the authors of the U.S. militarys current counterinsugency doctrine are steeped in contemparary scholarship of the 100 Years War (among many other conflicts). Astonished, because apparently a bit of throwaway literary free association I indulged in last week, ...
  4 weeks ago

• "The Skye, Black With Arrowes" -- Crispins Day (The Battle of Agincourt)

  
  The Celestial Navigator — Authority: 115
  Today is the 594th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt. While most of us are well-aware of the conflict if we stayed awake in ninth-grade history, I thought Id add a few comments of my own. Agincourt was the result of Henrys decision to invade France and attempt to take the French crown - his claim as one of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Sunday Open Thread: St. Crispin Day Edition

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  Today is St. Crispin Day, anniversay of the Battle of Agincourt, fought in 1415. The outnumbered English, employing superior technology and tactics, destroyed an overwhelming French force. Today is also the anniversary of the Charge of the Light Brigade, from the Battle of Balaclava in 1854.
  4 weeks ago

• Today Is Saint Crispin’s Day

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 613
  In the year of our Lord, 1415, the young King Henry V had been campaigning in France to establish his right to large chunks of that country. The campaign had been hard and bitter and in October the winter was approaching. Henry’s men had fought many hard battles and now all he wanted was to fall back on the safe ...
  4 weeks ago

• 1415: French prisoners at the Battle of Agincourt

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 470
  This day is called the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand o’ tiptoe when the day is named And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall see this day, and live old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors And say, “Tomorrow is Saint Crispian.” Then will he ...
  5 weeks ago

• BATTLE WOUNDS (NSFW)

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  “Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say`These wounds I had on Crispian’s Day.’ “ - Henry V , William Shakespeare
  5 weeks ago

• NYT > World: Historians Reassess Battle of Agincourt

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 173
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Some historians are doubting the Battle of Agincourt’s status as perhaps the greatest military victory against overwhelming odds, while also drawing some modern comparisons.
  5 weeks ago

• Centuries Later, Henry V’s Greatest Victory Is Besieged by Academia

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 906
  Patrick Fenet, a medieval enthusiast dressed as an English longbowman, aiming across the the field where the Battle of Agincourt took place in northern France.
  5 weeks ago

• 1415: Bardolph, Hal’s friend

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 470
  On this date in 1415, on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt, the young English King Henry V approved the execution of his onetime boon companion Bardolph in William Shakespeare’s Henry V . 18th century illustration of Bardolph. The fictional Bardolph had been the ruddy-nosed friend of Henry’s in the ...
  5 weeks ago

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