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Post by Van Plexico on Oct 31, 2007 12:53:54 GMT -5
Re the Battle of Agincourt: Did you guys not see HENRY V? (Awesome movie, BTW, with Kenneth Branaugh in the title role.) It was the English longbow archers who took down the French forces from a distance, while the French cavalry (and chivalry; ie, people "of note") got stuck in the mud. The English were vastly outnumbered but lost only a few, while the French lost many dead, including a lot of the afforementioned nobility. It showed that an English commoner with a longbow could beat a French nobleman with armor and horse, etc. Shakespeare has Henry give the famous St. Crispin's Day speech just before this battle. "We few... we happy few... we band of brothers..." Gen. Schwartzkopf later compared the ground war in Iraq (1991) to the Battle of Agincourt.
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Post by von Bek on Oct 31, 2007 14:22:05 GMT -5
It was the English longbow archers who took down the French forces from a distance, while the French cavalry (and chivalry; ie, people "of note") got stuck in the mud. The English were vastly outnumbered but lost only a few, while the French lost many dead, including a lot of the afforementioned nobility. It showed that an English commoner with a longbow could beat a French nobleman with armor and horse, etc. Then Hawkeye (Clint Barton) should have been involved, not Ares.
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Post by woodside on Nov 2, 2007 21:32:34 GMT -5
To be fair, I think it's a bit of a stretch to interpret "I'm talking to a Greek God of war!" as becoming a 'giggly schoolgirl'. I took it as more like "I talking to a Greek god of war!" as though he's surprised that he's talking to someone that really, should be classified as a villian.
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Post by goldenfist on Nov 5, 2007 15:29:30 GMT -5
Clint doesn't want to help Tony at all.
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