Word: agincourt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military historian who had never seen combat, John Keegan distinguished - himself a decade ago by writing The Face of Battle, a vivid triptych on three epic British battles that had all taken place within about 100 miles of one another: Agincourt (1415), Waterloo (1815) and the Somme (1916). Keegan ignored many considerations of high strategy and concentrated instead on what the ordinary soldiers had encountered through the centuries: the recurring experience of pain, noise, terror, courage, exhaustion...
...ornate carriage drawn by six gray horses to the Palace of Westminster in London. There, enthroned in the House of Lords and resplendent in a glittering crown containing a sapphire that belonged to Edward the Confessor and a ruby that Henry V wore at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, Queen Elizabeth II opened Parliament. The Lord Chancellor knelt and presented the Queen with her speech, a stilted discourse prepared by the Prime Minister, that outlined the government's legislative objectives for the coming year...
...themselves up as policewomen. Then they stole into Annabel's, a favorite haunt of London's young rich, and giggled at their secret over champagne before vanishing into the night. Not exactly Henry V slipping into disguise to mingle with the troops on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt, but when it comes to rallying spirits, it seemed just as good...
MARVEL at the spectacle of soldiery and swordsmanship in the decisive battle of Agincourt! THRILL as the victorious monarch woos and wins the fair Katharine - in two languages! It is all here, and more (including some of the loveliest wordplay in English or French). No wonder the play's Chorus poor-mouths the restrictions of the stage and the absence of "things/ Which cannot in their huge and proper life/ Be here presented." And no wonder that the definitive Henry V is Laurence Olivier's 1945 film version...
...have all heard of the battles of Hastings and Agincourt, and I doubt that there is anyone in the room who doesn't know all about the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. But I suspect that only a handful of you have even heard the name of what I believe is the most important-and glorious-victory in our nation's history: the Battle of Yorktown in October...