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Copyright © 2005 by Juliet Barker
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Contents
Preface
A Note to the Text
Part I: The Road to Agincourt
Chapter One: Just Rights and Inheritances
Chapter Two: A King’s Apprenticeship
Chapter Three: A Most Christian King
Chapter Four: The Diplomatic Effort
Chapter Five: Scots and Plots
Chapter Six: “He Who Desires Peace, Let him Prepare for War”
Chapter Seven: Of Money and Men
Chapter Eight: The Army Gathers
Part II: The Agincourt Campaign
Chapter Nine: “Fair Stood the Wind for France”
Chapter Ten: Harfleur
Chapter Eleven: “Our Town Of Harfleur”
Chapter Twelve: The March To Calais
Chapter Thirteen: Crossing The Somme
Chapter Fourteen: The Eve Of Battle
Chapter Fifteen: “Felas, Lets Go!”
Part III: The Aftermath of Battle
Chapter Sixteen: The Roll of the Dead
Chapter Seventeen: The Return of the King
Chapter Eighteen: The Rewards of Victory
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
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For Maurice Hugh Keen
EMERITUS FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD
PREFACE
As first light dawned on the morning of 25 October 1415, two armies faced each other across a plateau in an obscure corner of north-eastern France. The contrast between them could not have been greater. On one side stood the bedraggled remnants of an English army that had invaded Normandy ten weeks earlier and, in a major blow to French pride, captured the strategically important town and port of Harfleur. The siege had taken its toll, however, and of the twelve thousand fighting men who had embarked on the expedition, only half that number were now assembled on the field of Agincourt. Of these, only nine hundred were men-at-arms, the human tanks of their ............

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