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"TheBeerNut":uutc518z wrote: Brave men died in the field at Agincourt for [b:uutc518z][i:uutc518z]this[/i:uutc518z][/b:uutc518z]!?[/quote:uutc518z]
was this not the battle where Welsh bowmen saved the English kings arse by killing the french knights who as they walked slowly forwarded the armour they wore could not resist the extra large welsh bows.
As a foot note to this did you know that this is where the "giving a 2 fingered gesture" to your opposite came from. After this battle noblemen knights where no longer safe from peasant soldiers and they hated them for this,so when they caught bow men they would cut off their fingers. At a time of battle when army,s lined up and faced each other the bow men would taunt the opposite knights by gesturing with their 2 fingers and declare,
"A peasant gets to kill a noble man today and the king says its OK". <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D --> <!-- s8) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cool.gif" alt="" title="Cool" /><!-- s8) -->

&amp;quot;DEMPSEY&amp;quot;:3w4w9lbb wrote: As a foot note to this did you know that this is where the "giving a 2 fingered gesture" to your opposite came from.[/quote:3w4w9lbb]Did you know that almost every one of those "Did you know..?" anecdotes, including this one[/url:3w4w9lbb], is false, or at best unprovable?

&amp;quot;TheBeerNut&amp;quot;:ppxbkpa3 wrote: Did you know that almost every one of those "Did you know..?" anecdotes, including this one[/url:ppxbkpa3], is false, or at best unprovable?[/quote:ppxbkpa3]
ah but was this guy who wrote, including this one[/url:ppxbkpa3] was he their at the time. <!-- s:?: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_question.gif" alt=":" title="Question" /><!-- s:?: --> how do we not know that he is false.

&amp;quot;DEMPSEY&amp;quot;:2tz96gh4 wrote: how do we not know that he is false.[/quote:2tz96gh4]We don't know it's false (though it seems likely on the anthropological and historical evidence), but we know it's not provable and should be treated like a claim that Arthur Guinness invented the telephone or that Beamish & Crawford were a successful comedy act on the music hall circuit. If there's no evidence for it, you can't say it's true.