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The battle was fought in the defile formed by the wood of Agincourt and that of Tramecourt, at the northern exit of which the army under d'Albret, constable of France, had placed itself so as to bar the way to Calais against the English forces which had been campaigning on the Somme.
Recent experiments at Agincourt and elsewhere suggest that the English archers inflicted little damage on the heavily armored French knights and men-at-arms with their arrows because of the recent adoption of steel (rather than iron) for armor.
Agincourt 1415: Henry V, Sir Thomas Erpingham and the triumph of the English archers ed.
However, at Agincourt, an army of French knights came face to face with a new, ruthless force: an army of motivated individuals rather than a mass of feudal serfs.
Agincourt has become a classic symbol of national heroism in the face of impossible odds, but this film, based on first-hand accounts, tells the story from the point of view of the men in the thick of the battle.
From contemporary records, a dramatic and moving story emerges of the last and bloodiest pitched battle of the Middle Ages, in which combat based on chivalric codes of honour would be cast aside for a new and ruthless approach to warfare.
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