The French knights encumbered by armor and packed together too tightly on soggy ground, could not effectively fight the unencumbered English archers, leading to what major victory of Henry V in the Hundred Years' War.
The French force of twenty to thirty thousand faced an English army numbering only six thousand, but the French chose a battlefield hemmed off by forests, neutralizing this advantage. The French knights encumbered by armor and packed together too tightly on soggy ground, could not effectively fight the unencumbered English archers, leading to what major victory of Henry V in the Hundred Years' War.
The French force of twenty to thirty thousand faced an English army numbering only six thousand, but the French chose a battlefield hemmed off by forests, neutralizing this advantage.
{Agincourt}