Battle of Agincourt, 1415 (ALL PARTS) ⚔️ England vs France ⚔️ Hundred Years' War DOCUMENTARY 

🚩 The year 1415 was the first occasion since 1359 that an English king had invaded France in person. One of the most renowned kings in English history, Henry V cheered his outnumbered troops to victory at Agincourt and eventually secured control of the French throne. 🚩 I combined all parts of the Battle of Agincourt mini series for easier viewing. I hope you will enjoy the longer version of the video.

The amount of critical battles in history that have been won by first insulting the enemy is always staggeringly high.

People focus a lot on arrows vs armour but the majority of the arrows will kill the horses which will make the knights crash into the mud. You won’t die from that but it will make you sore and extra slow and encumbered, making it much easier for English longbowmen to hit unarmored spots like the face and making the melee fight much more disadvantaged against the English knights without mud

What has always amazed me is that on the night before the Battle of Agincourt the English/Welsh were ordered to be quiet, they could hear the French making merry as it were with good food and drink. The English army were half starved and many were suffering from dysentery and yet they found the strength to draw heavy longbows for a considerable length of time! They must have been severely weakened through hunger. But then again they were fighting for their lives. Dave.

There is something magical about the Battle of Agincourt. Imagine that you are outnumbered but on your side is none other than your king, inspiring his soldiers with his leadership. If my king was on the front lines I would following him to the end of the world and beyond. Soldiers love leaders who lead from the front, that's why Ceasar and Napoleon were loved.

I love how Henry just....orders the French to run away, and they listened, Henry had balls of steel.

I think there is "another" Agincourt that deserves some love too. The Battle of Aljubarrota (1385) pit the English and the Portuguese against overwhelming numbers of Castillan, Aragonese and French soldiers.

Strategically, the English were always at a huge disadvantage being so far from home. But they managed to raise hell and got some incredible victories on French soil with an ever diminishing army. I can't begin to imagine how maddening and stressful it must have been for France's rulers at that time having to deal with the English.

What I get from the battle is how effective your environment could be. The English were able to take their 5,000 archers and shoot upon the slow enemies while preventing them from properly smashing into the forces. Even if the third force charged in, they probably wouldn’t have been able to capitalize on the archers surrounding the French with how muddy the fields are. I very much see this as a great maneuver from King Henry for exploiting the muddy fields against their heavily numbered and more armored opponents.

David McCallion ls one of the best narrators I have come across on RU-vid. As usual, great content and great delivery.

I'm surprised that no-one has ever mentioned this detail about the battle - the English had archers on the sides of the front line. This would allow arrows to hit the sides or even the rear of French armour where it would be weaker as they reached the English front lines. The armour was designed to protect from frontal blows from an opponent in front of you. This could have made the side archers more effective in their volleys of arrows .

Proper narration, concise presentation and barely any advertising, good job!

This is the first video I have seen of yours. I am very impressed with how well you laid out the facts of the battle of Agincourt, and gave the siege it's due as well.

This was excellent. I had no idea about the night skirmish before the main battle, or the details of the siege of Harfleur. Very well done.

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english longbowmen also were equipped with a sword, as well with a dagger, which is called an "archers pick" which features a long, narrow blade. what it does is terrifying: in close combat, maybe out of arrows, archers are commanded to finish off knights and heavily armoured soldiers on the ground by stabbing their archers pick into weak spots of the opponents' armour, like armpits, eye slits, neck slits, groin, or elsewhere. naughty warfare. archers were also used in close hand to hand combat with their swords, as mentioned in the video (although being used as a hammer, not as an anvil). someone in the comments stated that longbow bodkin arrows have been lacking to effectively penetrate mail (plate as well as chain) armour. that seems to be true, regarding to some recent experimental records. draw weight of the bow, hitting angle as well as range (close, medium and wide range) have tremendous effect onto penetration ability. bodkin arrows were rather effective against unarmoured horses or coif/leather mail. the wounded horses fell and threw off their riders. though, it is stated that english archers didn't continue to shoot towards fallen, mudstuck or retreating knights, they'd rather be overwhelmed and finished off by other archers out of ammunition in groups by said "archers pick technique". "thehistorysquad" (youtube channel) has an interesting view on that (equipment on late medieval longbowmen).

Outstanding work HistoryMarche, great video, spot on narrating, very interesting. You kept me hooked from the start. I feel like I've learnt a lot in a short time.

That was probably the most accurate depiction of the battle of Agincourt that I have seen yet. Good work!

Can I just say the sound design on this video was amazing? I could hear the cannons echoing in my good headphones. Keep making fantastic videos like this!

Sorry, forgot to say how much I appreciate all the work you put into the videos.

Really enjoy your videos, they are so incredibly well made and narrated, very informative and enjoyable! And I like the small humorous twists! Thanks, and keep it up :)

I've read "La Guerre de Cent Ans" written by Georges Minois (in French). 700+ pages about the Hundred years' war, but it lacked a bit of maps in order to clarify some situations. Thank you for this great video.

Wow, what a story. Imagine Henry returning to London after the battle. What a moment.

amazing as always. Keep up the great work. We really appreciate the efforts and the style of presentation. Documentaries, not docu-dramas 😍

Fantastic video! This battle is still amazing to me, and many others I suppose.

Allot thanks (history Marche ) channel....for sharing this wonderful History coverage with enthusiasm introducing ...I appreciate your work hard for producing

Thank you ! What a wonderful account of this battle ,, safe humour under the circumstances,,, love it when I find a new podcast to listen to, I’m a history buff , I’ll be listening to everyone , thanks again 👍

Thanks for hard work! as always

great vid, i just love the amount of detail in animations

Wonderful series! This is a great way of showing history. Best to you and Happy New Year 2023!

An excellent, comprehensive presentation with very fine graphics.

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You've have become one of my favorite channels, to learn history, of warfare, and the politics of it.

Wow this was fun to watch. Great narration

This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remember’d; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

Thank you, sir.! Excellent presentation

Great work, this is an awesome documentary! Thank you!

A well-documented and captivating video for which I thank you. Funny, though, that French victories - like the 1453 battle of Castillon, which saw the English army receiving its last fatal blow - are hardly ever mentioned, researched and commented upon on either side of the Channel. The hundred years war is remembered by the English as the locus of their first shattered imperial dream, whereas it has always been neglected in France as a dark age to be forgotten, with internal strife threatening the country just as much as the resoluteness of the English kings.

The narration is absolutely outstanding. Always. Regardless of the content!!! And the content is great.

Excellent work well researched and presented.

This was a fantastic episode, thank you

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Keep them coming

Excellent. Great that you combine easy maps with narrative. Well done.

Very well done, thank you!

Raoul de Gaucourt isn't really much known but he was pretty badass. Very much the archetype of a heroic knight at the time. He fought at the battle of Nicopolis, and numerous others. He even went on to fight alongside Joan of Arc during the reconquest, and died in his late 80's or early 90's.

Fabulous documentary. This should be shown on terrestrial TV instead of the dull as dish water repeats they usually play. The quality of this video would get millions more interested in history! Superb production, thank you.

Fab video, thanks for this

This was fantastic, I really enjoyed it.

I sometimes wonder why you don't have 1 million subscribers or more. You are one of the few channels I actually subscribe and your contents are great.

The battlefield at Agincourt is really worth a visit. This is great! They have a longbow there that you are allowed to pull, not easy at all!

I love the detail of the movement of the units and the arrows and cannon and the fire and smoke. Computer graphics are cool when used to reenact historical battles. Would love to see some more of these, maybe even some more recent modern-day battles.

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The parallels between the Crecy and Agincourt campaigns are interesting, the English armies plliaging/retreating to Calais, slipping past a larger French force at the Somme, then being outmanoeuvred and forced into a decisive battle which was won with careful choice of geography and good discipline. Both victories provided vital morale and publicity boosts for the respective English kings, consolidating their power in France and England for years - and in both cases, any significant gain would be lost within a generation.

HistoryMarche, there are more two parts battles to combine on video to make such as: Battle of Dara, 530 AD Battle of Talas, 752 AD Battle of the three kings, 1578 AD Battle of Yarmouk, 636 AD Battle of Targoviste, 1462 AD Battle of Cynoscephalae, 197 BC Battle of Poitiers, 1356 AD I hope you can voice and narrate the battles of Poitiers and Targoviste that would be interesting

I loved this story! It gave me chills thru the telling of the battles, fantastic!!

Excellent stuff here. All the visual representations bring another dimension to this battle, which we all are so familiar with. We need that next level and not another retelling, this brings it.

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This is one of the first battles to get me interested in History. I remeber being captivated by the Medieval II: Total War historical battle when I was a youngster. This depiction of the battle certainly does it justice, and I learned some things I did not know about the wider campaign!

This is awesome!

Brilliant,phenomenal work

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Best Agincourt history ever. Puts all the other ones to shame. Brilliant.

Every video HistoryMarche uploads is so captivating and high quality! Keep up the great work.

Thank you for a great presentation.

I found this very fascinating and very well spoken narrative, subscribed

Your narrating is amazing. Thank you for all you do.

Always was fascinated about this battle along with Hastings. Thanks guys 👍

Very well done. Great play by play of the battles. Thanks.

very informative thank you

What an amazing story. Thank you for this video. Well done.

The taunt of "your mother was a hamster" boosted the English determination to win the battle.

As posted on the Agincourt video before it was consolidated into this combined video, it's worth noting for your viewers that Anne Curry's numbers are disputed. Her numbers were based off of administrative records, and the contemporary scholars Juliet Barker, Clifford Rogers, and Johnathan Sumpton all criticize this as the administrative records of the period were incomplete and that the numbers involved were already documented. Ian Mortimer also pointed out that she minimized French numbers and maximized English numbers. Lastly, Juliet Barker pointed out that "if the differential really was as low as three to four then this makes a nonsense of the course of the battle as described by eyewitnesses and contemporaries". I can't really blame you for going off of Professor Curry's numbers, she is a scholar and historian after all, but her numbers disagree with all the number totals that had come before, and there can be pressure when researching something that has been researched many times before to bring something "new" to the table. As always I enjoyed yet another excellent HistoryMarche video, but I wish the numbers as presented were brought more into question, as that is their current state academically.

This is just brilliantly done.

Exceptional work!

The battle of Agincourt is very similar to the battle of Aljubarrota in Portugal , decided by good strategy and English long bow archers.

Twenty years ago, I read Anne Curry's phenomenal The Hundred Years War soon after it was first published. I usually am very critical of RU-vid channels which recount historical events, but your recommendation directing your viewers to credible sources of the historical record from reputable Historians has earned a subscribe from me. Thank you and keep up the good work.

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Excellent presentation. Well done!

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What an awesome presentation of these battle's. So interesting.👍👏

Really good work, and very interesting historical video 😊😉

'Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!' - some Frenchman, somewhere

Could you imagine how different Europe would be had we seen a long Henry the fifth reign?

This excellently helped me to visualize the battle.

Great video, very informative

Excellent video!! Sidenote on the archers, they did not shoot in an arch( as is commonly shown in movies), they shot straight on. Massively increasing the velocity of the arrows. Whilst a direct shot to the breast plate would often not be able to penetrate, the volume of arrows ensure that any weakness in any point of the armor, for both man and horse would be exploited Combined with the mud holding the man at arms in place, it created a perfect storm.

Love the new video guys. I’d love to see you do a series on Skanderbeg after Hannibal is done.

Excelente video, muy bien explicado y realmente entretenido. Gran trabajo!

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I have never watched a more captivating and concise historic recollection of events for the lay-person ever before in my life! I also appreciate the effort you put in to replying to comments months out of the release date of your videos, so I would gladly appreciate it if you would graciously do the same to mine. I have been trying to find credible sources regarding the practice of chewing dirt before battles, notwithstanding the British tradition. Could you please point me towards the reference you used for this act specifically done in the Battle of Agincourt (or superstitions like thereof) so I can further parallel it with other future findings? Many thanks in advance. Cheers!

This channel really needs to make a video about the Battle of Legnano, no history channel has really covered such a crucial battle yet

Such a cool high quality video man

Great video like always

Only a minute in but the narrator sounds very similar to the AOE2 pre mission narrator for this mission(the OG one, not the Definitive edition). At least in my opinion he does. Side note, I was so excited for the movie “The King” since I thought it would be a realistic interpretation of Henry V and Agincourt but then I found it was based on a play or something, which was saddening.

It’s extremely difficult to find English language resources that are sympathetic to the Valois cause, or at least, not weighted towards the English perspective of the War. That’s why we always hear about Crécy, Agincourt, and Poitiers, but decisive and impressive victories by the French at Patay, Formigny and Castillon are virtually unknown in the Anglophone world.

Great vid! legendary battle!

Agincourt and hastings are some of my fav battles. Good video.