Hundred Years' War: Bloodbath at Agincourt (TRIH ep 489, part 3)
1415 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue their multi-part examination of the Agincourt campaign, focusing on the immediate build-up and the fighting on 25 October 1415. They analyse Henry V’s leadership, the morale‑boosting rhetoric (as later immortalised by Shakespeare), and the tactical use of terrain, heavy clay fields, hedgerows and woods.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1415
- Peasants' Revolt in England (1381)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Reign of Mehmed II (1451)
- Mehmed II (1432)