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English longbowmen secured victory at the Battle of Agincourt
Henry V defeated a much larger French army in muddy terrain in 1415
On Saint Crispin's Day in October 1415, King Henry V of England met numerical superiority at Agincourt in northern France. Deploying thousands of disciplined English and Welsh archers firing heavy longbows, his army repulsed charging French armoured cavalry bogged down in rain-soaked ploughed fields.
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