 The following year, Bedford won what has been described as a "second Agincourt" at Verneuil when his army destroyed a Franco-Scottish army estimated at 16,000 men.This was not a victory of the longbow for advances in plate armour had given armoured cavalry a much greater measure of protection.The heat of August meant the English archers could not implant their stakes, which led to the archers of one flank being swept away.