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Near Azincourt
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It astonishes me just how many British people today have no idea of the Hundred Years War, not those three great battles. It was little better 50 years ago. I recall as an Officer Cadet choosing Agincourt as a subject of my compulsory ‘twenty minute talk’. We all had to give a talk before about twenty of our fellows, while the rest observed on the new fangled CCTV from another room.
As I was (and until a decade or so ago) a fairly skilled Archer, I had the best sort of visual aids to pass around. My Bow and a range of different arrows. I talked ‘strategic’ defence and the use of point attack (‘scuse the pun), but the range of questions from 20-30 years olds showed that very few had any idea that those battles had ever occurred.
I suggest all chaps become familiar. We are in an era when through pillock leaders and / or sheer miscalculation we could render vast swathes of out world to rubble. It would unlikely be ‘back to the stone age’, of which we know nothing at all, but very much to the Middle Ages.
It astonishes me just how many British people today have no idea of the Hundred Years War, not those three great battles. It was little better 50 years ago. I recall as an Officer Cadet choosing Agincourt as a subject of my compulsory ‘twenty minute talk’. We all had to give a talk before about twenty of our fellows, while the rest observed on the new fangled CCTV from another room.
As I was (and until a decade or so ago) a fairly skilled Archer, I had the best sort of visual aids to pass around. My Bow and a range of different arrows. I talked ‘strategic’ defence and the use of point attack (‘scuse the pun), but the range of questions from 20-30 years olds showed that very few had any idea that those battles had ever occurred.
I suggest all chaps become familiar. We are in an era when through pillock leaders and / or sheer miscalculation we could render vast swathes of out world to rubble. It would unlikely be ‘back to the stone age’, of which we know nothing at all, but very much to the Middle Ages.
JH: Quite agree.