Want to get your heart beating? Listen to good King Harry and consider the glory that would come from that battle won by those badly outnumbered warriors on St. Crispin's Day.
Don't be confused. There were two saints, Crispian and Crispin, one more forward, the other more taciturn. Their days fall in sequence and the battle of Agincourt commenced early the morning of Crispin's Day. You'll read all about it if you seek out Bernard Cornwell's current best seller, Agincourt. You'll also learn that Crispian and Crispin were the patron saints of a French village of Soissons where a community of English were brutally massacred in the years before Agincourt.
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2 comments:
If that don't get your blood flowin', you're dead already!bt
I remember that from the opening of one of the chapters in your book, sir. It is a very good oration.
All the more so since it required no teleprompter.
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