The Burrell Baronets of Knepp

The Battle of Agincourt, the third English victory in the Hundred Years’ War, was fought on 25/10/1415 (St. Crispin’s Day), between the heavily outnumbered army of King Henry V of England (5,900 troops) and that of Charles VI of France (35,000troops). The latter under the command not of the incapacitated king himself, but of the Constable Charles d’Albret, and various notable French noblemen of the Armagnac party. The English King gave a sanguine speech (later adapted into Shakespeare’s Henry V) that rallied his men to fight. The English army prevailed against the heavily armoured French cavalry, which floundered in the mud and was wiped out in the hail of arrows that rained down on them. It was a decisive English victory.