Hello and welcome back to Epox. If you remember last time we'd finished with the Siege of

Hauffler in Henry V's famous 1415 campaign so in this

episode hopefully i'm going to try and get us up to the battle of aging core or at least the night

before the battle of ashing core and so that's about a whole month and there is a fair amount of detail to

go through i hope you like it so i should shall be continuing with Ian Maltimer's great book

1415, Henry the 5th's Year of Glory, which does go into far more detail than I've seen in any

other book. So let's just continue with this. Ian Maltimer starts us off with cutting back to the

French side of the equation. He says, quote,

John the fearless had been at Arguelly for over a month now.

Four days ago, on the 20th,

the ambassadors of the French government,

led by the Duke of Lorraine, had arrived.

Their mission was to try to persuade John to send men to help the Dauphin in his struggle against the English,

and, at the same time time to keep John away from Paris

because the French side were worried that John the fearless might attempt a coup or another

coup. If you remember from earlier episodes there'd been all sorts of internal civil strife,

civil war in France between the Armagnac faction and the Burgundian faction.

So the powers that be, the actual royal family and the Dofan and the king, were suspicious

and wary of John the fearless, to say the least.

They didn't necessarily really want him in command of an army.

But still, they also needed him at the same time, so caught between a bit of a rock and a hard place.

Baltimore continues saying, with Paris in a heightened state of anxiety and experiencing a particular cynicism with regard to the government,

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