Make that 601 years..!

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Er, everybody seems to have missed this gem when I posted it this time last year.

600 years ago today: Battle of Agincourt + 'Band of Brothers' speech:
Celebrating the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt today!
(I've been waiting a long time to post this!)

BtW-- Plenty of 'milsurp' used then and pictured here!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt

The author of this next article is BERNARD CORNWELL, who also wrote the 'Sharpe's' novels, e.g. "Sharpe's Waterloo", "Sharpe's Trafalgar", et al, which were in turn made into television dramas for the BBC about a decade ago.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11948049/The-Battle-of-Agincourt-why-should-we-remember-it.html?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook[
 
plinker 777 said:
I think single diget is an Italian thing. :p
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English longbow men, being the scourge of the French had their right index and middle finger cut off if captured by the French so they could never draw a bow again. It is said that the flour of French nobility died that day at the hands of "commoners".
 
Mike Webb said:
English longbow men, being the scourge of the French had their right index and middle finger cut off if captured by the French so they could never draw a bow again. It is said that the flour of French nobility died that day at the hands of "commoners".
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To add to Mikes post. What I have read was the English Bowmen who helped win the day went past a group of French prisoners showing them the two fingers (still attached) flip that was the birth of "giving them the finger". Wow 601 years......... man does time fly. What amazes me here is North Americans thinking 100 years is a long time, and Europeans think 100Km is a long distance.
 
NL-Hunter said:
"Pluck Yew"
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flour of French nobility died that day at the hands of "commoners".

Tricked em into charging into a bog and massacred them. ;)

Grizz
 
gewehr76 said:
I thought battle of Agincourt was in 1415?
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"Er, everybody seems to have missed this gem when I posted it this time last year."

Last year (on 25 Oct) I posted this same item on the "CGN News Digest" forum and it only got one view. I came across it again when I was reviewing my 'subscriptions' yesterday and decided to have another go on 'milsurps' in an attempt to hit others with an interest in military history.
 
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Ah ok got it. That much time passed since then that one year doesn't make a difference. I always was interested in the 100 years war, which actually shaped France and England in to what they are today.
Cold Warrior said:
"Er, everybody seems to have missed this gem when I posted it this time last year."

Last year (on 25 Oct) I posted this same item on the "CGN News Digest" forum and it only got one view. I came across it again when I was reviewing my 'subscriptions' yesterday and decided to have another go on 'milsurps' in an attempt to hit others with an interest in military history.
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plinker 777 said:
400 some odd years later we (the commoners) caught up with the rest of the lazy ba$tards. :)
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The French revolution ended in The Terror and Bonapartism. It was not a triumph of the common people in the slightest; it was a triumph of Jacobin radicals whose mass murders ended in their own execution. Before it was over in 1815 the common people of France had died in their millions and millions more Europeans died from Moscow to Sicily. "A man such as I am cares nothing for the lives of a million men," said Napoleon and he proved it. The French revolution was the precursor of the bloody revolutions of the 19th and 20th century which killed tens of millions more.

"the flour of the French nobility"
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It's a wonderful thing to know a second language. That is if you have mastered your native language first.
 
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gewehr76 said:
Ah ok got it. That much time passed since then that one year doesn't make a difference. I always was interested in the 100 years war, which actually shaped France and England in to what they are today.
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The 100 year war.
"Hmm, what am I going to do today. Oh ya, fight the French."
 
RRCo. said:
The French revolution ended in The Terror and Bonapartism. It was not a triumph of the common people in the slightest; it was a triumph of Jacobin radicals whose mass murders ended in their own execution. Before it was over in 1815 the common people of France had died in their millions and millions more Europeans died from Moscow to Sicily. "A man such as I am cares nothing for the lives of a million men," said Napoleon and he proved it. The French revolution was the precursor of the bloody revolutions of the 19th and 20th century which killed tens of millions more.





It's a wonderful thing to know a second language. That is if you have mastered your native language first.
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You will agree that only radical revolution will unseat a well entrenched tyrant?

Whether French Kings, Russian Czar's, or contemporary North African Dictators acting as though he were the right hand of the almighty himself. Foreign governments can't be relied on to assist the people with their misery; their stoic silences will be purchased by the offending state. You mention how the French Revolution was the catalyst for bloody revolution throughout the 19th and 20th century. However, you forget the American Revolution which most scholars agree, was the philosophical birth place of the French Revolution. The American Revolution showed the world that a Kings influence can be forcibly removed. The fundamental difference between the two being (as you have pointed out), that the French Revolution was driven by Jacobin agenda and the American Revolution was driven by a capitalist one.

My point is that it is the common people that fought and bled for a change from tyranny. They may gather under a banner, they may collectively espouse an ideology, but that doesn't discount them as the common people. In my mind, it enforces the fact.

...except these my joints! :)
 
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