Oh, goodie! After a century of being “allies,” the French are going after the Brits on military matters. And as seems to be terribly popular in the Old World, they’re still cheesed off about things that happened before Columbus even found the Americas.
According to the Mail Online:
To Shakespeare, it was the moment a feckless youth turned into a great king, leading his army to victory against seemingly impossible odds.
But French academics have a very different view of the Battle of Agincourt – claiming that English soldiers acted like ‘war criminals’.
They also accuse King Henry V of giving his permission for captives to be burnt to death and ordering his bodyguards to execute a noble who had surrendered.
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‘At the very least the English forces acted dishonourably. The Middle Ages were a very violent time, of course, but some might accuse the English of acting like what might now be called war criminals.’
