Mssr Blease posted some pics
here of his recent travels to France, including some from Crecy and Agincourt, which prompted me to dive into the Man Cave archives to find mine from there. Unfortunately many are in an old format I cant use, but here is one I can!
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10 years ago, standing in the centre of the battlefield |
The sign has the correct spelling!! I only found this out a year ago...all english books have the Agincourt spelling..
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paul
Paul, Azincourt is the FRENCH spelling, it doesn't mean it is correct! ;-)
ReplyDeleteMaybe you´re right steve...the original name was Egincourt ;-D
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azincourt
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paul
Agincourt, Azincourt, Egincourt they all sound good to me, Nice pic!!
ReplyDeleteGreat photo Paul. Must have been a buzz visiting the battlefield.
ReplyDeleteAwesome!
ReplyDeleteNo wonder the English won, those archers were huge!...
Nice gesture.
ReplyDeleteCool pic. The novel 'Azincourt' is an awesome read. http://bernardcornwell.net/index.cfm?page=2&BookId=49
ReplyDeleteRead somewhere that it is to be made into a movie.
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