Heavon Muck and Danston knows history hip. The Battle of Agincourt is one of the most famous and celebrated victories in English history.

It was spun right from the start, from within minutes of the battle ending, as a sign of divine approval on Henry V and the House of Lancaster.

Henry made sure that he marketed that battle on both sides of the channel for everything it was worth.

You'll have heard Greg Jenner on a recent podcast saying he thinks it's the most overrated victory in British history.

He may or will be right. Either way though, it's an extraordinary story. It was a great battle.

It was a great clash between England and France and it remains an extraordinary story 600 years later.

In this episode of Danston knows history hit, by popular demand, asking folks what they'd like me to talk about,

I'm doing the Battle of Agincourt, the background, the campaign, the battle itself and the consequences.

It's the Battle of Agincourt, me doing one of my little monologues.

Needed nothing I promised I'd never do, just talking away, shouting a microphone in my own house, isolated alone,

like Ebenezer Scrooge in his counting house after the onset of dark on Christmas Eve.

That's basically me. That's basically me sitting in my study yelling about princes of the blood being hacked down in a field south of Calais.

You know what? It makes me happy. And frankly, you find something makes you happy. You need to cling to it.

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We view, we happy few. The story of Asgenkore stretches back, well nearly 50 years before, when the juke's of Normandy, William Duke of Normandy became King of England,

it triggered a bit of a problem in the internal politics of France. You have a subject of the King of France, now King of England.

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