Hello and welcome back to Epox where I shall be continuing my story of the life and career of King Henry V of England.

If you remember last time we left off, he was just about to embark for the great campaign of 1415,

and he'd just thwarted the Southampton plot. So I'll pick up the story straight from there.

Today I'll be largely reading or entirely reading from a book by Ian Maltaimer, just called

1415.

It was a book that came out in about 2010, and I read it back then and thought it was excellent.

And what this particular book does is it goes through in crazy detail,

granular detail, brilliant detail if you're

interested in it. It's almost day by day. It's all done chronologically and not every single

day has got an entry, but most of the days he's saying something about it. So it's really

drilling down into it. And when I read this, like God, best part of 15 years ago now,

I loved it so much, and I've

been rereading it for this bit, because I want to go into the campaign of 1415 in tons and

tons of detail.

And there's no better book that I've ever read about it than Ian Mortimer.

So I'm going to read quite a lot today from this one.

Okay, so before I start, a few words then about the numbers involved.

So basically he's got about 15,000 fighting men, but there's a lot more people involved

than that, maybe twice as many because he's got lots of mariners, sailors, and then lots of

non-combatants. So lots of people that are like carpenters, miners, sappers, and then lots of non-combatants. So lots of people that are like carpenters, miners,

sappers, cooks, pages, servants, lots of prostitutes, lots of people that come along for the

ride, even though they weren't supposed to be any prostitutes. Henry had specifically said not to have any of those. But there'll

...