Agincourt

crows afeast on milky eyes and mindless stones with silence do accuse..... the soldiers prone, with blackened limb, their valiance ill conceived. pride of France smeared in the mud the English arrows drenched in blood: six thousand dead … conceit so ill begot. One country and a princess gained at Agincourt when arrows rained But this remained: the sightless stares, the rotting limbs as Henry twice now be the king: his longbow made it so. and when he put the French to sword the dead became the dowry then of Catherine.... and trees in silence rooted forth but death’s ill stench there yet remained of folly war, of scythed men, of prejudice’s consequence. And only history to tell if those that fell died gloriously for France. note: The battle of Agincourt took place in France, during 1415. Depending on whom you believe Henry and his 6 000 men engaged 24 000 French, and proceeded to decidely annihilate them. This he managed with his very able longbow archers, whom the French threatenened with cutting of their middle fingers. The longbow archers then taunted the French by pointing said fingers into the air. Thus said pointing of the particular finger remains a sign of derision!