[Pharmboy]

Big Battle Revisionism ping...Hundred Years’ War ping...Agincourt ping...there...that should cover it.

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[Sherman Logan]

The historians have concluded that the English could not have been outnumbered by more than about two to one.

Highly unlikely. The battle was devastating to French morale, which it wouldn't have been had they lost a roughly equal conflict. It also made an enormous stir throughout Europe, which again an equal conflict would not have.

It is also relevant that the English were exhausted from long marching trying to evade the French, suffering severely from dysyntery and significantly malnourished.

If the English hadn't tried to stick with their archers and dismounted men at arms approach to battle after effective artillery made it obsolete, they could have kicked ass for at least another century.

[aculeus]

bttt