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Message: <blockquote data-quote="frugal" data-source="post: 1523657" data-attributes="member: 12517">The slaughter at Agincourt had more to do with the arogance and stupidity of the French knights, they did not believe that the flower of French chilvalry could be defeated by some english farmers with sticks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />the French started the battle at the bottom of a muddy hill (by muddy I mean you could sink 2 feet into it). When the Genoesse crossbow men were cut down by the longer range of the longbow the french knights ran them down as they charged over them. Unfortunately for the french, knights on horse do not do well when marching slowly up a muddy hill with no infantry support. So they got slaughtered as well, then they turned and fled riding down the infantry who were desperately trying to catch up.Agincourt would have been completely different if the french had taken the "defeated english peseants" seriously. But then that could be said about most battles.</blockquote>