The New Student's Reference Work/Agincourt

Agincourt (a-zhăn-kōōr′), a village in the north of France, known in history as the scene of the battle between the English under Henry V and the French under the Duke D’Albert, commanding for the Dauphin Charles, Oct. 25, 1415. Having driven the French cavalry by strategy into a swamp, Henry V turned his archers upon them and almost annihilated them. The fugitives threw the army into confusion, and the battle of three of four hours ended in a terrible defeat for the French. More than 10,000 French were killed, including many princes and nobles, while the English lost only 600. This decisive battle so crippled the power of France that Henry V soon had control of the entire kingdom.