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<DIV><SPAN class=062513213-25102011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Well,
either that or ONE SICK PUPPY!!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062513213-25102011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>hahahahahahahaha</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062513213-25102011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>We are
a "devoted" group, aren't we?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062513213-25102011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>cog</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr lang=en-us class=OutlookMessageHeader align=left><FONT size=2
face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
[mailto:archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>fenrisulven@comcast.net<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 25, 2011 8:52
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Garth Groff<BR><B>Cc:</B> atlantia@atlantia.sca.org;
isenfir@virginia.edu; archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[Archers] Agincourt, 25 October 1415<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P>You know you're an archer when *this* [see attached] is your desktop
background :)</P>
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<P>Cheers</P>
<P>Fen</P>
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<P>"Atlantian Archery. Nothing exists within 100 yards without our
permission"</P><BR><BR>
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<B>From: </B>"Garth Groff" <ggg9y@virginia.edu><BR><B>To:
</B>archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org, isenfir@virginia.edu,
atlantia@atlantia.sca.org<BR><B>Sent: </B>Tuesday, October 25, 2011 7:25:17
AM<BR><B>Subject: </B>[Archers] Agincourt, 25 October 1415<BR><BR>Noble
friends,<BR><BR>Today is St. Crispin's Day, 25 October. This is the
anniversary of the <BR>Battle of Agincourt in 1415 during the Hundred Years
war against France.<BR><BR>On this day, Henry V's small English army turned to
face a much larger <BR>French force on ground the English king had carefully
selected. The <BR>English army consisted of about 5,000 English and Welsh
archers, and <BR>about 1,000 dismounted knights and men-at-arms. The English
army was <BR>hungry and wracked by dysentery. The French army was the flower
of their <BR>chivalry, with over 1,200 of their finest mounted knights, at
least <BR>10,000 heavy men-at-arms afoot, supported by several thousand common
<BR>infantry and crossbowmen. The French army may have numbered as many as
<BR>36,000 men.<BR><BR>Henry had chosen his battlefield well, a rise at the
end of a narrow <BR>freshly plowed field, with thick woods to either side.
After being <BR>galled by long distance arrow volleys, the French were finally
goaded <BR>into charging into this death trap. The English archers poured
clouds of <BR>arrows into the packed men-at-arms who were already struggling
through <BR>the thick mud. The press became so severe in front of the English
lines <BR>that the French had little room to swing their weapons. When a
French <BR>knight or soldier fell, few could rise again from the mud before
the <BR>were trampled by their own men pressing forward.<BR><BR>By the end of
the day, between 7,000-10,000 Frenchmen lay dead in the <BR>mud, with another
1,500 taken prisoner. The finest army of France had <BR>been crushed. It took
several years (and thousands of Scottish <BR>mercenaries) to rebuild the
French forces. English losses were put at <BR>just over 100 men.<BR><BR>The
Battle of Agincourt is often described as the greatest triumph of <BR>the
English longbowman. It was not the first in France during the <BR>Hundred
Years War, nor would it be the last (many of those Scots would <BR>later die
from English arrows).<BR><BR>If you would care to learn more about this great
battle, Wikipedia has a <BR>very good summary with some interesting
illustrations: <BR>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt
.<BR><BR>Kind regards,<BR><BR><BR>Lord Mungo Napier, A Scot Who Is Thankful He
Wasn't
There<BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Archers
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