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Agincourt rethink
• arcleinHenry V's English victory over the French was made famous by Shakespeare. The English were heavily outnumbered, battle-weary, retreating and, according to contemporary chronicles, suffering from dysentery. Yet they still beat the French. How could this have happened? Was it simply the power of the English longbow?