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To: Spots who wrote (1534)	2/5/1998 8:32:00 PM
From: Brooks Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8545

(off topic) Re Agincourt -- You would enjoy reading "The Face of Battle" by John Keegan, my favorite military historian. Compares Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme, showing how the gory reality of war evolved, as seen by the infantryman. On page 101, he describes how the French infantry -- crowded along a narrow front too tightly to freely swing their weapons, and pushed from the rear by a great crowd of other Frenchmen -- began to fall. "This was the crucial factor in the development of the battle. Had most of the French first line kept their feet, the crowd pressure of their vastly superior numbers, transmitted through their levelled lances, would shortly have forced the English back. Once men began to go down, however...those in the next rank would have found that they could get within reach of the English only by stepping over or on the bodies of the fallen." Instead, they tumbled and in turn were killed. And the archers on the flanks DROPPED their bows (they were probably out of arrows by now) and commenced slaughtering stragglers. "Drawing swords, swinging heavier weapons -- axes, bills or the mallets ... (they) ... ran down to assault the men in armour." Forgive me. Just indulging a nice fantasy about what MSFDC has in store for it.