WHAT A SLIP-UP

The 1415 Battle of Agincourt should have been in the bag for the French. In numbers and kit they had the upper hand.

Many of Henry V’s soldiers were sick and exhausted from weeks of tramping across damp foreign soil. What saved the day for Henry was mud. The conflict took place in quagmire conditions. Henry took a chance and advanced. As the French knights piled in, they were dragged down by their weighty armour and drowned in a sea of mud and bodies. Game over.