Word: agincourt
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Land Battles: From Agincourt...
...rulers, were petulant adolescents. The French, who lost to England at Crecy in 1346, and at Poitiers ten years later, did so because they refused obstinately to understand that archers, who were not noble, could be effective soldiers. They still had not learned their lesson by the time of Agincourt...
...three-putted the second through sixth holes, and then took a nine on the tempestuous par-five 16th. He tried to park a three-wood on the green, but after taking a lusty rip at it, he finished up like a knight at Agincourt who has just missed connections with his mace and chain. The ball disappeared, heading due west...
...year-old with a quick mind and a quick mouth, and he is one of the nation's two leading designers and publishers of war games. Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI), the firm he started seven years ago, does incredibly complex recreations of such historical battles as Waterloo, Agincourt, Gettysburg, and sells them at the rate of about $2 million worth a year. Avalon Hill Game Co., the other big manufacturer, markets such simulations as Starship Troopers, a science-fiction game, and the complex tank-warfare re-creation Tobruk. Dunnigan's firm also imagines wars that have...
...trying to answer the question Keegan dwells extensively on three famous battles, unified in space by about 100 miles but separated in time by five centuries: Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme. At Agincourt a tired, hungry English band of about 5,000 archers and 1,000 foot soldiers met a French force of some 25,000 on Oct. 25, 1415. In Shakespeare's Henry V the English king naturally dominates the stage. Keegan is more interested in the ragtag soldiers and what sustained them: prayer, a hope of booty from French casualties, ransom for prisoners and plenty of strong...