True, there was about fifty milion dead french soldiers and still french had 900 reserve armies of twenty bilion more and kept cloning more!
Got any more rubbish? Or do you base it on medieval chronicles that routinely made armies 10-100 times larger (i **** you not German chronicles claimed there were 400.000 Poles and Lithuanians under Grunwald) inflatind the army 10 times).
Really?! You do realise that the highest casuality number for the French was 10.000 together with about 2000 captives?
Lets take away approximately Genoise and French 1000 Crossbowmen who got ran over by their own cavalry, at least 5000 Squires who went together with their knights and we have at most 5000 nobles.
At the time France had approximately 60.000 nobles of age that made up total of its mobilisation strength so the casualities at Azincourt made up about 8% of their aristocracy.
It took several more years before the Troyes treaty so France was hardly gutted, the victory was great but by now its apparent that French forces have been inflated in size while English severely downsized.
There's a current opinion among academics that at one point (in order to make the victory seem greater) the contingent of men-at-arms at least 3000 strong was cut out from the picture that would make the English 8000-9000 strong against a likely French force of 20.000.
Great points, where did you get the info from? I'm always interested in researching new theories and ideas in history. I know that Henry invaded with an army of about 13K, conducted the siege of Harfleur and then Henry had to call it a day and started the march back to the channel - which the French so rudely interrupted!
To my mind, given my amateur casualty estimates Henry had an effective army of between 10 - 11K after Harfleur, they got hit by disease and probablt suffered another 10 - 15% casualties, with a similar amount combat ineffective - my figs and guesses! So that puts the English at about 8K, with a French army 2 and a bit times their size. Using attacker / defender ratio of 3:1 the French couldn't cut it but went ahead anyway, convinced of their superior numbers, armour and nobility.
The English chose the ground and knowing their enemies tactics laid the battle plan, the French obliged by following their doctrine and suffered accordingly.
Now numbers can be inflated or deflated, after all the victor does get to write the history.
The French suffered a huge defeat, in loss of manpower (8% of the nobility, plus all the nobles in waiting who were Squires), the men at arms (gentlemen farmers) and the loss of pride, losing their national flags and banners as well as getting spanked by an underfed and disease ridden army, that happened, whichever way you cut it. Either way I'm not too sure that I'd want to be one of the "Happy few", but that's just me!:cheers: