Agincourt
now AZINCOURT, a small village in the center of the French department of Pas-de-Calais, celebrated for a bloody battle between the English and French, Oct. 25, 1415. Henry V., of England, had landed at Harfleur, had taken that fortress and was marching to Calais, in order to go into winter quarters.
But a French army, vastly superior in number, intercepted the English march to Calais, near the village of Agincourt.
The invading army, weakened in numbers, and suffering from want of provisions, was still 14,000 strong; the French, under the Constable d'Albret, numbered 50,000,