Outnumbered English longbowmen crushed France's mounted knights

At Agincourt in 1415, Henry V's exhausted, heavily outnumbered army faced a French force several times its size. Mud, a narrow field, and thousands of English and Welsh longbowmen cutting down charging knights turned the battle into one of history's most lopsided military upsets.

— Juliet Barker, Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England — Little, Brown, 2005
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