Great English dates No 6: 1415

Agincourt is one of the most famous battles in English history, but the victory proved short-lived and marked the begining of the end of English ambitions in France

One of the greatest of English military victories was also the most senseless. As a battle, conducted mostly by archers against mounted knights, it was sensational. As at Crécy and Poitiers, earlier in the 100 years war, English (or rather Welsh) archers out-manoeuvred the French. Bodies of hundreds of fallen men-at-arms formed a r...