DZ 063 Part 37. 300 Spartans and All That – Plataea – Phalanx – What the Battle of Agincourt Teaches - First.

At the Battle of Agincourt, the French knights were reluctant to fight the English longbowmen. Were the longbowmen such amazing soldiers? For a modern reader the reason, when I tell you later in this programme, might be hard to understand?

Tag words: Battle of Agincourt; English longbowmen; Battle of Plataea; Greeks, Persians; John Keegan; The Face of Battle; Richard Cohen; Making History; Sandhurst Military Academy; Max Hastings; French knights; English knights; Victor Davis Hanson;