Legend says Agincourt was won by arrows. It was not. It was won by men using lead-weighted hammers, poleaxes, mauls and falcon-beaks, the ghastly paraphernalia of medieval hand-to-hand fighting.

Bernard Cornwell continues his mastery in the field of historical fiction in “Agincourt,” an intense novel about an epic English victory over the French. Cornwell wastes no time in getting the ...

The eerie hum of thousands of potentially deadly arrows pouring down on to the field of Agincourt is set to be recreated for the first time in six centuries. An ambitious project is underway to ...

Today, movie effects are mostly done in CGI, especially if they’re of the death-defying type. [Tyler Bell] shows us how they shot actors with arrows before CGI. Almost every medieval movie ha… ...

At Agincourt some barbed broadhead arrows (which were designed to cause maximum damage and could fell cavalry) would have been shot at those few horses that attacked the English line.

The arrows of time "Initially, we based the Battle of the Bastards on the Battle of Agincourt," episode director Miguel Sapochnik said in an interview Sunday with EW.

Above, a generel overview of the diorama, depicting the Battle of Agincourt. The arrows on the ceiling represent what the French might have seen after the British fired their arrows Picture: Royal ...

IT WAS raining, and the English soldiers huddled around dismal camp fires in the dark. Across the narrow valley of Agincourt, they could hear the French taunting them.

The 'middle finger salute' did not derive from the defiant gestures of archers whose fingers had been severed at the Battle of Agincourt.

Celebrations for the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt will take place in England this year, and one of the world's top longbow makers, who hails from Powell River, will be in attendance.