![]() She deftly explains the factions and personal foibles that divided French nobility at the beginning of the fifteenth century, leaving the country susceptible to attack. Barker provides a thorough background, both genealogical and ideological, to England's claim to the throne of France. ![]() Juliet Barker's Agincourt: Henry V and the battle that made England is a mistitled but easy to read overview of the character of Henry V and his conduct of one of the most famous campaigns of the Hundred Years War. When the French army gathered at Agincourt, the vastly outnumbered and seriously debilitated English army won a resounding victory, and thanks to William Shakespeare that victory has been immortalized. During the Hundred Years War, England's King Henry V also laid claim to the crown of France, and to make good that claim he launched an unexpectedly successful armed raid through the French countryside beginning at Harfleur and ending at Calais. ![]()
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