When Shakespeare wrote his play (1599) about the life of Henry V of England,  the battle of Agincourt had faded only 189 years into the note pages of the past. (Abraham Lincoln and our Civil War are already 150 years gone, so 189 years is not really so long as it seems.) Shakespeare celebrated Agincourt as a victory of David over Goliath and, to some extent, as the victory of the English yeomen, who were commoners.

Exactly 600 years ago, on Oct. 25, 1415,  a weary English army led by young King Henry V was attacked by a heavily armed French Army that outnumbered them five to one. At the end of that battle, more than 9,000 French soldiers and knights were dead, but only 112 English had been killed. The battle of Agincourt is well documented by at least 7 contemporary accounts, 3 of them by eyewitnesses.