On October 25th 1415, King Henry V led a weary English army to a legendary victory at the Battle of Agincourt. With mud underfoot, arrows in the sky, and courage in their hearts, they made history. "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers..." Watch the full video and see Kevin's epic model here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnpcd-HX5FE #OnThisDay #onthisdayinhistory #agincourt #history #model | History Squad

Battle of Poitiers from the Hundred Years' War LEGO animation by Brick Dictator https://bit.ly/2KbGHVy Late in the summer of 1356, Edward the Black Prince led a small army from Bordeaux deep into the French king’s realm, almost exactly ten years after the humiliating defeat of the French at Crecy in 1346. | Beyond the Brick

The legend usually centers on Battle of Agincourt. According to popular tradition, French forces threatened to amputate the index and middle fingers of captured English longbowmen so they could never shoot again. Before battle, the archers supposedly held up those two fingers in a V shape to signal that they could still draw a bow. It is cinematic. It is memorable. It is almost certainly untrue. No contemporary chronicle from 1415 mentions such a gesture. None of the major sources describing Agi