Obviously True
You have photographic evidence. That's more than can be said for these so-called "historians".
Agincourt: The sensational truth
The news last week that a group of historians had calculated that Henry V's forces at Agincourt weren't actually outnumbered four to one by the French caused a certain amount of dismay here at Vulture Central. Well, we weren't going to take this highly suspect piece of revisionism lying down, and immediately set about re- …
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Monday 2nd November 2009 13:46 GMT JetSetJim
Historical accuracy
Except the Frenchies were in the North, not the South West (although there were a small number of French peasants who nicked some of the Englishmen's luggage during the battle, and that was probably to the south-ish).
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bataille+d%27azincourt+france&sll=50.461247,2.145424&sspn=0.017676,0.048537&ie=UTF8&hq=Bataille+d%27Azincourt&hnear=Battle+of+Agincourt,+62310+Azincourt,+France&ll=50.463624,2.141647&spn=0.017675,0.048537&z=15
Not that I doubt the rest of your research, of course.
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Monday 2nd November 2009 13:46 GMT TeeCee
Historical innacuracy.
Very close. However, I have it on good authority* that the messenger you refer to was attached to the retinue of the Earl of Essex..
That being so, he would actually have described the French Army as having: "Faaazinds ov 'em".
I'm planning to write a paper to be publishing in a Historical Journal** to prove that there were far fewer "T"s and "H"s used at Agincourt than is generally assumed or recorded.
*Wikipedia.
**The Daily Telegraph
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Monday 2nd November 2009 13:46 GMT Paul_Murphy
Wow - so history is interesting after all..
And there I was thinking it was boring, when all along all it needed was playmobile and rupert.
So what about the baggage train and the Genoese crossbowmen? not to mention the french foot-soldiers... oh well, I'm sure they will al make their appearance at some point or another in this moving re-enactment.
Tea break :-)
And I suppose the surfeit of messengers is because of the messenger unions' struggle against modernisation, thus leading to outmoded duplication of effort and redundant personnel? or maybe the're just friends.
ttfn
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Monday 2nd November 2009 20:50 GMT Andy J
Don't want to piss on your parade but...
I have to doubt the historical accuracy of your report. Tea did not come to Europe until the seventeenth century, two hundred years after Agincourt so the English couldn't have been on a tea break. Based on past experience, I would say this story came from a press release issued by the Home Office to distract attention from the deranged drugs advisor story.http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/fail_32.png
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Monday 2nd November 2009 23:54 GMT Charlie Clark
Au contraire @Andy J
If only you'd studied your Asterix you'd know that we Brits didn't need tea* to invent tea breaks! We had them in Roman times.
* Probably some kind of sino-indian conspiracy about the discovery of tea but we're magnanimous enough to overlook it. Can't be magnanimous where the French are involved, obviously.
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Monday 2nd November 2009 23:54 GMT Stevie
Hooray! Hooray for Our Side!
This is quite simply the truest thing ever written in the history of the universe. Tears formed in my eyes as I contemplated that painstakingly recreated scene of French brown trousering. You, sir, should receive a Knighthood from a grateful Queen and a Nobel Prize for Telling It Like It Was.
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Tuesday 3rd November 2009 04:37 GMT Maty
Now that's settled ...
Can we rename St Pancreas Agincourt Station to go with Waterloo, for our French chunnel passengers?
Of course the French also lost Crecy, Potiers, Malaplaquet, the Battle of the Nile, Talavera, Salamanca, Ramilles, Sluys, Oudenarde, Trafalgar, Dettingen, the battle of Quebec, Louisberg and Warburg, but only because the British cheated.
In return the French can name parts of Paris after battles where they thrashed the Brits. After all they won Lauffeldt, (1747) and got a draw at Fontenoy.
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Tuesday 3rd November 2009 04:37 GMT Steve Roper
Definitely fake
As in, not even real Playmobil. That's just a 3D rendering - the soft shadows on the foreground characters give it away, not to mention the fact that El Reg does not possess thousands of Playmobil figures (your budget wouldn't allow for the thousands of dollars required for such frivolity). If you're going to try to dupe your readership with such fakery, at least turn on Area Shadow and Radiosity for your final render; it takes longer but would fool a lot more people!
So what 3D app did you use to create that picture, and who did the modelling?
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Tuesday 3rd November 2009 10:19 GMT Svantevid
@ Rickard 102
"Rupert wasn't a dalmatian! Would Dalmatia have been involved in this conflict, let alone supporting the British?"
Why not? We were on your side (and against the French) during the War of the Austrian Succession. If French wine industry was half as good in 15th century as it is today, you'd have a surplus of Dalmatian volunteers. And their dogs, obviously. :-)
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Tuesday 3rd November 2009 13:30 GMT Norman Bowring
Mais c'est magnifique!
For once, the comments are worthy of the actual piece in question!
However (isn't there always one?), I could only count one Longbowman and one Knight! Perhaps it's because the historic photo (which is delightful) is in colour but my vision, since I'm a Luddite at heart, is still in black and white!
Thanks for such a good laugh so early in the week!
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