Battle of Agincourt, 1415 AD (Part 2 / 2) ⚔️ Victory against the odds
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🎄❄️ The Battle of Agincourt was an English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place on 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day) near Azincourt, in Northern France. The unexpected English victory against the numerically superior French army boosted English morale and prestige, crippled France and started a new period of English dominance in the war.
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🎄❄️ This is the first video in the new year. I sincerely want to thank everyone who supported the channel in 2020. It has been a tough year for everyone.
I am humbled to have been a part of this community, which all of you helped create, and I look forward to bringing you more content in 2021. I hope that HistoryMarche has brought you entertainment and educational value, and I wish each and every one of you the absolute best in the new year.
Thank you for taking the time to watch this video. May there be many more to come! Cheers!
How is this comment 14 hours ago?!
Happy New Year! Battle of Mohacs?
TY TY TY! Been waiting for this :)
Can you please tell me who Mimi is?
Hello HistoryMarche, I’m wondering if you can make videos about the sixth & seventh crusaders & liberation of Jerusalem with Salahddin’s command.
“Your father smells of elderberries”. Whoa, now. Let’s not say things we can’t take back.
the great Mony Python has given us some good stylistic insults
@Niek Vels Run away! Run away!
I fart in your general direction!
Someone's going to need aloe vera for that burn.
Yeah, medieval times were brutal. Oink oink.
Watching this as a Frenchman felt as horrible as that slow stabbing-in-the-heart scene from Saving Private Ryan, I can swear I felt your narrator smile at some point. Friggin love it. Nowhere even in our museums here you can find such a detailed and riveting account of this battle, kudos to you guys your work on this channel is incredible.
Azincourt is an eternal shame in our collective history, but also a formidable lesson that reshaped the way French society viewed warfare at that time. More intelligence gathering was needed, technological improvements and professionalization were required, indiscipline could not be allowed anymore, even from the high-born. What they had in front of them was a new special kind of threat.
The sense of brotherhood in that Saint Crispin's Day speech, even if romanticized, gives you shivers and is a beautiful piece of national narrative. We truly are a particular kind of frenemies in this world.
After that butchery the whole army was reorganized, which led to a totally reversed situation & casualties at the battle of Castillon in 1453. It would be awesome if you could do a video about this one in the future, so epic and not covered yet in a decent way even on french UA-cam channels. First massive use of cannons, heroic death of Talbot, could be visually stunning and a little consolation for us. People always seem to forget that the campaign of Joan of Arc (in which the knights of La Hire had their personal and definitive revenge on longbowmen at the battle of Patay) was not an isolated event, the end of the war was brutal as well. Glad we do not live in such ages anymore, what a life these dudes had.
You just earned a new Patreon, longue vie à HistoryMarche !
Are you serious? Such detail? that he failed to mention that the longbow men that won the English the battle were in fact WELSH 🏴! Another example of the oppression of the Welsh by the English. There’s no honour in stealing another nations glory. Welsh history has been trampled out by the English.
@@nicolasbishop6634 Not true. The longbowmen where both English and Welsh, although it’s unknown how many of either were there. Also, it can be argued that the English men-at-arms holding the line was the crucial reason why Henry V won the battle. As for your so-called “oppression”, the Welsh have their own Parliament which is far more representative; the English have to contend with Westminster and their FPTP system. The average citizen in the devolved nations gets more money from the state than the average Englishmen anyway. Wales is no longer oppressed by England.
@@nicolasbishop6634 All the histories of this action I've read, ( and talks at the museum at Azincourt) mention the overwhelming importance of the Welsh longbow men, Nicolas but there was also a lot of Lancastrian archers present as well,
What never seems to get mentioned, is the fact that the vast majority of Henry's army were starving, living on acorns in some reports and suffering from dysentery, with accounts of them being naked from the waist down and voiding their bowels where they stood. With their arrows stuck in the earth in front of them, getting punctured by one must have been like an early form of biological warfare. Not to mention the effect the sight of a few thousand, half naked and "soiled", efficient long range killers, had on the French is anyone's guess.
cymru byw hir!
@@CHIL2903 lol
Yeah then 500 years later came "The Surrender"
Feelsbad moment: when you outmaneuver and corner your enemy, but your army slips out of control and engages, regardless. This battle illustrates the difficulty of keeping ambitious nobles in check. Henry did well in that regard.
Indeed. Just as I wrote in the cards at the end of the video, Henry had complete control of his troops, while Charles didn't
I always thought that the leaders of this era was not so smart.
@@annieroseloquinario2044 why
@@annieroseloquinario2044 Its not about smartness, the people like of Alexandr the Great, Ceasar or Napoleon had to be tactical and strategical geniueses, but in those times (hell even today with our modern communication), insurbodination and "glory seekers" can melt down cohesion of your army and that can prove fatal as we just witnesed. Its one of the first things the Art of war teaches you. DISCIPLINE is an utmost important, without it, you will eventually fail.
Reality is not a game, in most of todays games, you have 100% control over your troops, not to talk about having 100% accurate scouting info from your surroundings. Thats just not posible in the real world. Some games simulate real wargames of today, but those are more simulations then games to be honest and would bore most of the ppl, also they tend to be unfair (which is what reality looks like).
So in hindsight after battle, everybody is master strategem, tactician or just knows how it "could be done better". But once you actually try to be in their shoes, you will get different point of view, or you will be dead.
@@HistoryMarche True, It's also the motivation. English were fighting for life so they had to be more disciplined. French were fighting for glory so they could afford to be a little more arrogant.
And, off course English army was more professional. French were still living with old notion of knights and chivalry
18:18
This has to be one of the most badass moments in medieval history. Walking into battle, cold, outnumbered, tired, hungry and outmatched and closing out the battle with by ordering the enemy to fuck right off.
His style gives me Julius Caesar vibes. Am I the only one?
Yeah, definitely agree. Just a day or two ago I was pondering that England, in a way, had its own Caesar in Henry V, but he just died too young.
@@HistoryMarche The Romans invented sewers. Somehow this makes your food taste less like shit. Could have made a difference...
way excessive
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Tastes less like shit? I see you haven't tried Haggis yet
@@RexGalilae That only proves my point: the Romans had sewers, and no Haggis. Henry V did not have sewers, and so he had to live a lot closer to Haggis...
The exchange of insults with "your mother was a hamster" and "your father smelt of elderberries" is pretty accurate! You just missed the part the French catapulted cows on the English
They what?????😂😂😂😂
EU4 quote my consagrado.
@@willienilliemcnamara1236 they catapulted various animals, in fact. And some time later the English tried to sneak behind French lines using a huge wooden bunny.
You can check these details in a documentary from 1975
...and the part where they promised to "fart in your general direction."
@@flavioaugustojose HAHAHAHA, the movie is that old?
The Battle of Agincourt was a fascinating and unexpected English victory. Henry V took several risks during the battle, most notably hiding some of his archers in the woods, but his enforcement of strict discipline in his army and his ruthlessness in killing French prisoners also contributed to the victory. Excellent video. Thanks for covering this fascinating battle.
@Thib Skywalker Personally, I don't believe in karma or anything like that. So I don't think that anything that you mentioned was 'punishment' for Henry V executing French prisoners or any violent actions he took in his life. Sure, someone from that time period might think that. However, I see no reason to think that Henry V's choice to execute French prisoners at Agincourt had anything to do with the War of the Roses, Henry VI's madness, or anything of the other damaging events that England endured later that you mentioned.
killing french prisoners also made the french much more united than they were before this battle, now really fighting against a common ennemy and not trying to gain some more glory than their neigbhour
@@zzaronn What are you talking about? The French literally flew the Oriflamme declaring "no prisoners" themselves, so everyone should have been expected to be executed. Doesn't matter if they surrendered first or not, the French declared no prisoners, so no contemporaries ever accused the English of doing anything wrong.
@@holyarchangelmichael The French flew the Oriflamme during the battle. Every Englishman was to be put to death, surrender or no. Little did they consider that the ENglish would be the ones in charge. With the Oriflamme flying, it doesn't matter if the French surrendered or not. Whether they were prisoners for 10 seconds, or 2 hours. Everyone was to be killed and expect no peaceful treatment with the Oriflamme flying so the French being put to the death after surrendering is a moot point. Their own side declared no prisoners with the Oriflamme, so if prisoners were killed, it is well inside the usual rules of warfare at the time. Hence why none of the French at the time took umbrage with the decision. Not a one.
‘Once more unto the breach dear friends! ‘
Yeah, nothing like the bombastic Shaky :)
This story, the good man will teach his son.
@@Conorp77: And Crispian, Crispian shall ne'er go by, from this day to the ending of the world! But we in it, shall be remembered..."
Best monologue in the English language.
Edit: Outside of Frankenstein, I mean.
@@NobleKorhedron We few... we happy few. We band of brothers!
"Bardorph, give me back my crossing" 😂😂 I see what you did there
hehe
I do not.
@@Matthew10950 "Varus, give me back my legions!" allledgedly exclaimed by Emperor Augustus upon receiving news of ther Roman defeat in the Teutoburg forest.
@@captainloggy140 Thank you.
Whatever happened to Bardorph? We got no update.
First off, a big thank you to the narrator David McCallion and the others at HistoryMarche. Your videos are of top notch quality. I have been studying history since I was little. However, I find it sad that channels like yours is doing what the History Channel should be doing. You can learn more from a 20 minute video than you can in 20 hours on the History Channel.
yes - the History Channel once showed great promise -
then something happened -
and they no longer do history anymore
instead they give us this carp...
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Ancient Aliens
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etc, etc, etc...
ad nauseum...
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Having history explained through map view makes soo much more sense to me and having a geological anchors to references helps so much.
Starting the year the right way.
I love the French dude that ignored the battle & burgled the English camp 😂
Yeah those mfs over there can die, we gonna be rich tonight boys
He is the true winner of this battle.
While the French army melted and the English barely wins the battle, he got the English king's treasury.
And most of his political opponents died as well.
Le Edmund Noiradder
Simply the best content. You guys are true professionals!
That raining animation from bird perspective is frickin glorious. Great work.
I hade a feeling this video will come out today, my patience have been rewarded. Love this channel
Mounted archers? I didn't get any mounted archers. Moooom they are using cheats again.
HAHAHA
They were likely archers who shot stationary or dismounted but could flee via horse
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and they get to re-deploy stakes
@@hoplite6164 exactly! My archers only get single use stakes!
I've seen many a documentary about this battle but you managed to give more detailes than all the other documentaries. Well done !
One of the most incredible parts you forgot to mention was that Henry's brother Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, was wounded in the groin during the fighting and collapsed onto the ground. The french knights, recognising him as a trophy and a valuable ransom, started to drag him behind french lines. Henry seeing this, charged ahead of his bodyguard and hacked at the French who abruptly dropped Humphrey. This was the worst place for Henry to be at. If he died then the battle was lost.
So, putting his feet astride his brothers fallen form, he raised his battle axe and fought with the french knights, holding them off until his body guards caught up.
Just before they got to him one of the french troops had an opening against Henry and swung his sword, it managed to shear off several jewels before rebounding off. That was how close to the English losing the fight.
There are so many interesting bits to Agincourt and yet the films never attempt it.
He truly was a hero
What do you mean by jewels? Like family jewels?
Just think if that French soldier got a few inches closer to King Henry, the battle might have been lost.
However...It was King Henry's brother and blood is thicker than water.
Very interesting!
Small things with huge effects.
(I read long ago that the battle of Waterloo also was a very close affair)
@@Rw4352-v8e which part?
Thank you for your amazing work!
It is really rare to find such insightful and objective research on UA-cam, even more when displayed with such quality in both the visuals and the writing.
To another year, and to your future projects!
I LITERALLY just finished watching the "The King". What timing!
best battle of agincourt youtube video so far. i love the animated visuals and breakdowns.
agreed
Nice to get some background on this pivotal battle. The French are often portrayed as hot-headed and impatient leading to their ruin. However, things could have turned out much different had it not rained or the mounted archers were discovered. Up to that point, the French had done an admirable job forcing the English on to the back foot. Wonderful job!
Wow so much more in-depth than any other Agincourt video! Good job.
French archers and crossbowmen: We don't feel like shooting today.
my arms are tired :(
Where are our croissants???
They actually didn't took part because the frenchs feared who they might kill Henry, because they where so sure of victory who they wanted to take Henry alive for ransom.
@@omarbradley6807 source?
@@Djzommer1 Line of Fire; Agincourt
Amazing, thank you!
I love how the archers picked up their weapons and went toe to toe against the knights!!
I love me an epic suicidal charge that actually ends up victorious
@@dik56 yeah when men were truly brave. but to be fair they were dead if they lost the battle so might as well go down fighting
I mean technically long bow men where exceptionally strong and therefore would be pretty handy in hand to hand combat and with a hammer or axe, especially when the other person is exhausted and possibly injured
@@dik56 I mean technically long bow men where exceptionally strong and therefore would be pretty handy in hand to hand combat and with a hammer or axe, especially when the other person is exhausted and possibly injured
I'm really really happy they noted the numbers of troops in this battle and explained what could and was actually fielded in most battles.
It was one of the first things our history teacher tought us is that they were not as massive as most people believe they were.
My father does NOT smell of elderberries, Sirrah!
hahaha
LOL Henry interjecting '6:1 actually!'.
Love this channel. I get lost in these videos.
Another brilliant video by HistoryMarche, thank you so much keep up the great work making amazing content like this, honestly this is better than TV.
the production quality is just keep getting better and better. so beautiful!
Thanks so much!!
The Battle of Agincourt is one of the most famous and most portrayed from the Middle Ages. Amazing video.
Keep 'em coming, brilliant, love this way of visualising history!
Great video. could have also mentioned the training involved for the longbowmen which is why they were capable of shooting these more powerful bows.
Thank you for an excellent video! Agincourt is one of my favorite battles!
Glad you enjoyed it!
As a French, gg wp for the english you got us this time.
I'll be covering French victories as well.
@@HistoryMarche Thank you! i would appreciate a lot if you can do Marignan someday :D
Yeah bro we had Edward III and Henry V clapping the French but you guys had Joan of Arc and went and won the war
@@Cancoillotteman it's funny tbh, when the French were losing its because they had an insane king, to unite the Countries Henry V married the crazy French Kings daughter and ironically it switched when the son from that marriage Henry VI the next king of England was mad and insane and France started battering us.
@@HistoryMarche Patay?
This has to be 5th video I watched about this battle over the years but there's always something new to learn.
Good job!
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!
Watched this after reading bernard cornwell' azincourt. Fantastic book, and a great video.
Awesome, thank you!
@@HistoryMarche would you think about doing the Battle of Shrewsbury, where Henry gets the arrow shot into his face?
That’s so funny I literally played this historical battle in Medeival two total war last night and won 👍. Good start to the new year.
You have foreshadowed this video! :) Thanks for stopping by man.
French or English
Easy to win just do not move your troops.
God, I can't wait for a Medieval 3
I remember playing that battle! good times!
Such a detailed analysis on things. The graphics of day and night together with the effects really shows you how it woukd have felt beign there. Owls ,wolves. Keep it up !
Moral of the story:
Eating dirt on each battle will eventually get you.
Kids, do not eat dirt and wash your hands often.
😂😅
Dirt is good for you shut up
No kids do eat dirt and your immune system will look after you when you get older
@@loyalist5736 LOL, you don't know where I am from. You believe that your immune system will survive if you avoid dirt during your childhood?
I have very bad news for you my fried. Very very bad news.
lmao at all these people replying to you not realizing that the English army was incredibly sick during this campaign from doing stupid stuff like eating dirt with horse manure in it.
You are so good in explainig history.
I love the way you explain how battle went on.
Always pass my lunch break seeing your videos.
This serie on the 100 war its awesome
I usually don't watch much on English or French history. But you guys make it so interesting that I have to watch them. So keep up great work.
Been stoked about the release of this the follow up video!
"The British started to cross the Somme." Me: Its not even WW1 yet!!!
Amazingly enough, the battle of the Somme was not about crossing the river. Rather, the river divided the battlefield in a large northern part where mostly English attacked, and a smaller southern part where the French and English attacked together, having some initial succes. But the river itself ran more east-west in that part, while the attack was west-east, so not much crossing done there.
As usual Abselutely Amazing Quality Keep it up I can't wait for More Videos on Hannibal's series
Love how you made me feel like a roman during the battle of cannae 1 min in
"but first...." (starts advert)
I'll quote your narrator as to how I felt during that moment.
"hannibal successfully ambushed the romans IN AN OPEN FIELD!"
Until now, there wasn’t a good video on Agincourt on UA-cam. You have answered that by producing two great videos to fill that void. Thank you!
I've watched these battles many times on UA-cam and retold them each time，The Battle of Castilon，the battle of Formigny and the Battle of Patay will never be told
They still might...
Great video!
What you did with the animation of English archers flanking on the right was brilliant!
Thank you so much for this excellent video! Laurence Olivier would be proud.
This is a Great job!
And french subtitles would be great too
For the french audience I thk...?
Im demanding too much, quality is here and its enough!
Happy new year!
What a brilliant way to start the year! Thanks for another awesome video HistoryMarche 😉 best wishes for 2021, can't wait to see what content you've got in store for us!
Love the Monty Python insults!
Happy new year! Yep, nothing like the python!
Wow, what a fantastic video! Nice work! This made 2021 far more better! (battle reminds me of M2TW)
Quality content, maybe you could also cover the battles which led to the French victory in the Hundred Years' War.
Amazing explanation with all the fine details. Very much appreciated.. Thank you for all the research & hard work.
So nice of you. Thanks for watching.
4:57 lol always love those lines in your videos
hehe
Thank you sir, this was great!
27 French foot soldiers disliked this video.
They still won the war. And took revenge against the same arrogant peasants at patay.
Men-at-arms, not foot soldiers...
@@kristofantal8801 lol. wElL, aKsHuLY.....
I love the words you chose to describe events in this episode!
Thanks and keep up the great job! :D
Thank you! 😃
Henry V was such a badass. Truly a Boy King.
very thorough research. well done!
SO this is what made the English archers OP in Age of Empires.
Thank you for creating this channel...Its literally been my Therapy for The year 2020...keep up the Great work CHAMPS...you guys have truely increased my Love for history..
I wish Y'all a prosperous 2021😊🎊..
Thank you sir.
Every body knows about Agincourt and stuff. It has been run down by all major channels many times. I want to see the Battle of Patay where French cavalry finally got the littles shits in open country. And also Battle of Castillion where the English witnessed the full might and fire power of one of the legendary military arms in History. The mighty French Artillery.
There just not that interesting though. Take Castilian, an outnumberd English army was beaten by a dig in french one with superior technology
Great way to welcome the New year with a banger!
Feel like I've played a good strategy game after watching this 👍.
Thank you. Uau! What a great video! Very Nice. Loved it!
Thank you! 😃
Amazing, n Happy new year HM!
Happy new year man! Thanks for sticking by the channel all this time!
THat was fantastic. TY so much. The humorous chat bubbles were so much fun too hahah . This was brutal and still the politics of the who period seems so alien today. Ill watch more, but again ty to the channels like this for the educating holes in what we thought we knew.
Happy New year, everyone!
Happy 2021
Again awesome content, thank you again for your hard work on your informative channel!
Very good two partner on the Agincourt campaign. Fine it very interesting, that you have gone half and half on the numbers issue; Staying with the 6,000 for the English army favoured by most historians barr Curry and then side with Curry on 12,000 for the French army. Any particular reason for this, given the numbers debate and the flaws with Curry's numbers visa overcounting, underestimating men died at Harfleur or send home and lack of surviving records. Probably suspect, that given this is the last semi-united French army composed of both Armagnacs and Burgundians forces that they had an army closer to 15 or 16,000, maybe even as high as 18,000, given my own reading on the subject.
One of the best visual rendition of the battle in terms of manoeuvers for sure.
You forgot to mention Sire de Lanferelle and the archer Nicolas Hook
Reading that book ATM brought me here, lol! Cheers!
Thank you. Am reading and recommending Bernard Cornwell’s “Agincourt.”
12:47 I didn't expect that Monty Python reference xD
THIS VIDEOS ARE SOOOO GOOD
It's always the best day when HistoryMarche uploads a video!
YEEEEEEES!!!!!! THE BEST ARE BACK
This ranks as one of the best battles in history, right after the Siege of Gondor and the Battle of the Five Armies
Turns out the french had early access to Total War battle A.I.
looks like they were inspired on this leader
great video as always
Sadly after this stunning victory it all goes downhill from here.
Great video! Happy new year HistoryMarche!
It’s always the proud reckless heavy french knights ..
Always😅
@@Cancoillotteman Unfortunately, not all most of the times are remembered. At least not as well as the times it disastrously failed.
Unironically yes.
Don't forget that there were instances where the French heavy cavalry dealt heavy defeats to English armies...
their egos to big for their own good
Wow I liked the new graphics used during the Battle 🤩
French: he's really good at retreating! Also French: oh shit mud and arrows.. 😶
wonderful presentation; thank you. And thank you for the reference data.
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Actually, the weirdest thing about the Hundred Years War is how FEW battles there were. After the catastrophic French defeats of Crecy and Tours the French government chose a policy of indirect attack and retreat avoiding pitched battle. That policy was followed until... Agincourt.
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That's because this is one of those battles that pretty much change history. If King Henry had died in this battle, if his army hadn't been able to return home, the Hundred Years war would have progressed much differently.
@@RetrousseRaptor that explains the over 100 years of war. Had there been more battles, both sides would've been depleted much sooner.
@@resileaf9501 It simply delayed the inevetable. If French won the battle, Hundred Years War would end few decades earlier and War of the Roses would still occure. Contrary to British propaganda, Hundred years war is more then romanticiezed triologg of Crecu, Poiters and Agincourt.
Always in time for dinner it's like you've a nack for it lol. Been looking forward to part 2 all week. Cheers HM. 👍
Last time i was this early England was ruled by vikings.
its called EUROPE now 😂
@Thib Skywalker Danelaw?
maybe up as far as the danelaw
Bravo, well done.
If my enemies said my father smells of elderberries. I'd probably go into a fit of uncontrollable rage too.
Should I ever end up in a real battlefield without firearms, so silence is no longer needed, I will definitely use that insult... :D
That was excellent, what a lovely way to learn about history.
Many thanks!
Hopping many vedios on the way #2021