Hello and welcome back to Epox and after the brief hiatus talking about the history of steam with Alex Masters.

We're going to go back to keep on talking about Henry V and his famous 1415 campaign.

If you remember last time we left off right in the middle of the Siege of Half Fleur.

So I should continue talking all about that in almost day-to-day detail, not quite day-to-day detail,

but in quite a lot of detail. I should be reading largely quite a lot from a book 1415, Henry

the 5th's Year of Glory by Ian Multimer, famous historian Ian Multimer. So let's continue straight

back into the story. Maltimer says, quote, and we're talking about Saturday the 31st of August,

1415, quote, at half-floor, the bombardment continued. The siege was now two weeks old,

and still there were a few signs that the inhabitants were prepared to give up. That's interesting,

isn't it? Because we told that Henry had his cannons blasting away day and night, literally 24-7,

and yet still the walls aren't pounded down, or there's not a significant breach in the wall,

and the townspeople aren't prepared to give up yet. How does that, how do you square that circle?

Well, there's a bombardment, a 24-7 bombardment, and then there's a early 15th century,

24-7 bombardment. It there's a early 15th century 24-7 bombardment it's just not what you might think

you know you might have in mind

a World War I sort of bombardment

well it's just not that you'd have one cannon

firing every now and again

so it's just it's very very low intensity

relatively low intensity you probably wouldn't like being

on the receiving end of it, but it's, yeah, it's not like a modern bombard. Some chronicles

suggest that Rao de Gocor had held negotiations with the English, offering to surrender the town.

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