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St Crispin's Day Speech. The St Crispin's Day speech is a part of William Shakespeare 's history play Henry V, Act IV Scene iii (3) 18–67. On the eve of the Battle of Agincourt, which fell on Saint Crispin's Day, Henry V urges his men, who were vastly outnumbered by the French, to imagine the glory and immortality that will be theirs if they ...
The Battle of Agincourt (/ ˈædʒɪnkɔːr (t)/ AJ-in-kor (t); [a] French: Azincourt [azɛ̃kuʁ]) was an English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place on 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day) near Azincourt, in northern France. [b] The unexpected English victory against the numerically superior French army boosted English morale ...
The Battle of Agincourt was heavily dramatized by William Shakespeare in Henry V, featuring the battle in which Henry inspired his much-outnumbered English forces to fight the French through a St Crispin's Day Speech, saying "the fewer men, the greater share of honour". The central part of the speech begins, "This day is called the feast of ...
Patton's speech to the Third Army was a series of speeches given by General George S. Patton to troops of the United States Third Army in 1944, before the Allied invasion of France. The speeches were intended to motivate the inexperienced Third Army for impending combat. Patton urged his soldiers to do their duty regardless of personal fear ...
Henry V (play) Henry V. (play) The Life of Henry the Fifth, often shortened to Henry V, is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written near 1599. It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War. In the First ...
Enguerrand de Monstrelet. Enguerrand de Monstrelet. The Battle of Agincourt from Enguerrand de Monstrelet's Chronique de France, shown in a miniature by Master of the Prayer Books of around 1500. Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c. 1400 – 20 July 1453) was a French chronicler. He was born in Picardy, most likely into a family of the minor nobility.
Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford KG (1378 – 9 August 1449) was an English knight and landowner, from 1400 to 1414 a Member of the House of Commons, of which he became Speaker, then was an Admiral and peer. He won renown in the Hundred Years' War, fighting in many engagements, including the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
Thomas de Strickland. Arms of family of Strickland of Sizergh. Sir Thomas de Strickland (also Stryckeland; 1367 – 30 July 1455) was an English soldier. He is best known for carrying the banner of St. George at the battle of Agincourt. [1][2] Battle of Agincourt.