Agincourt in a sentence

Before the final report, the commission initially recommended Scarborough-Agincourt be absorbed into the existing North York ridings of Don Valley North and Don Valley East.

Agincourt Square in Monmouth has been closed since July 2 for new water main installation, with the closure expected to last until July 30.

Perhaps the oldest known surviving Valentine’s Day poem was written in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London after the battle of Agincourt between the English and the French.

The trailer depicts the Siege of Harfleur and the Battle of Agincourt in northern France, one of the most famous battles in English history.

It's only been 603 years since Agincourt.

The plays take place before, during and after England’s military conflict with France at the famous Battle Of Agincourt in 1415, part of the ‘Hundred Years’ War’ between the two nations.

Agincourt House (next to the Lower Ferry) is also 14th century.

Barker states that some knights, encumbered by their armour, actually drowned in their helmets.sfn Fighting Opening moves "Morning of the Battle of Agincourt, 25th October 1415", painted by Sir John Gilbert in the 19th century.

Clifford Rogers has argued that while longbows might not have been able to penetrate steel breastplates at Agincourt they could still penetrate the thinner armour on the limbs.

However this did not necessarily make the longbow ineffective; thousands of longbowmen were deployed in the English victory at Agincourt against plate armoured French knights in 1415.

It has no etymological connection in French with Agincourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle (attested as Egincourt 875), which is derived from another Germanic male name *Ingin-.

Nevertheless, at the battle of Agincourt in 1415 and for some decades thereafter, English longbowmen continued to be an effective battlefield force.

Preceded by the Battle of Crécy in 1346, and followed by the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, it was the second of the three great English victories of the war.

The battle at Patay might be compared to Agincourt in reverse.

The boy was known as Henry of Monmouth before his coronation as Henry V ; supported by longbowmen from the area, he won the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.

The victorious conclusion of Agincourt, from the English viewpoint, was only the first step in the campaign to recover the French possessions that he felt belonged to the English crown.

This siege cast an even darker shadow on the reputation of the king than his order to slay the French prisoners at Agincourt.