title: Agincourt: The Fight for France
author: Ranulph Fiennes
description: Fiennes provides a unique perspective of medieval history as a direct ancestor of nobility that fought for both the English and French at Agincourt. Conversational and well-paced. A fascinating and immensely readable narrative of Agincourt.<br /> - <strong><em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong><br /><br />Vigorous. Fiennes both provides an effective narrative and places the battle in context.<br /> - <strong><em>New Criterion</em></strong><br /><br />Fiennes, arguably our greatest explorer, has delved deep into history.<br /> - <strong><em>The Times (London)</em></strong><br /><br />Fiennes takes us through the complicated history before and after Agincourt, and his informal narration has something of the quality of an elder recalling the past.<br /> - <strong><em>Providence Journal</em></strong><br /><br />Fiennes, a renowned polar explorer and British military veteran, brings a distinctive point of view to his recounting of the 1415 Battle of Agincourt. A stylish, substantive account.<br /> - <strong><em>Publishers Weekly (starred review)</em></strong><br /><br />Written with enthusiasm, Fiennes ancestral accent on Agincourt stands well as an account of the battle.<br /> - <strong><em>Booklist</em></strong><br /><br />What is most fascinating is the extent to which his family contributed to the shaping of England and France, as knights, noblemen and even those who sat on thrones.<br /> - <strong><em>Dublin Evening Echo</em></strong><br /><br />Fienness strong narrative style pulls readers along quickly.<br /> - <strong><em>Library Journal</em></strong>
zlib_text: AT AGINCOURT
  
  AT
  AGINCOURT
  A TALE OF
  THE WHITE
  HOODS
  OF
  PARIS
  KV
  G. A. HENTY
  Author of " Beric the Briton," " St. Bartholomew's Eve," "In the Reign of Terror,"
  "St. George for England,
  fhe Tiger of Mysore,"
  etc.
  WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIOXS Hi' WAL. PAGET
  NEW YORK
  CHARLES
  SCRIBNER'S
  SONS
  1896
  
  Copyright,
  1896,
  by
  CHARLES
  SCRIBNER'S
  SONS
  TROWDIRECTOUT
  PUNTING ANDBOOKBINDINGCOMPANY
  NEW YORK
  
  PREFACE
  The long
  and bloody
  feud between the houses of Orleans
  and
  Burgundy — which
  for
  many
  years
  devastated
  France,
  caused
  a prodigious destruction
  of life and property, and
  was
  not even relaxed in the presence of a common
  enemy—is very
  fully recorded
  in the
  pages
  of Monstrellet and other
  contem
  porary
  historians.
  I
  have here only
  attempted
  to relate
  the
  events of the early portion of the struggle —from its commence
  ment
  up to
  the astonishing
  victory
  of Agincourt,
  won by a
  handful
  of Englishmen
  over
  the chivalry
  of France.
  Here
  the
  two
  factions,
  with
  the
  exception
  of
  the Duke of Bur
  gundy
  himself,
  lai