The Battle of Agincourt under scrutiny
The New York Times is reporting that King Henry V may not have been so outnumbered at the famous battle after all:
“Agincourt’s status as perhaps the greatest victory against overwhelming odds in military history — and a keystone of the English self-image — has been called into doubt by a group of historians in Britain and France who have painstakingly combed an array of military and tax records from that time and now take a skeptical view of the figures handed down by medieval chroniclers.” [read more here]
