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Warren Ellis: Crécy
Not exactly Simon Schama...
From one of my favorite GNs of the past few years, Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres' Crécy from Avatar/Apparat.
I have posted my favorite pages, but to remain under the limit they're not consecutive mostly. Afraid you'll just have to read the whole thing after this, and it's still in print so do that.
A few words about arrowheads. And the Welsh.
And because the French would not allow commoners in the army and got unprepared mercenaries instead, and because the English had an army of trained commoner longbowmen, this happened. After the battle, we tie off loose ends, and learn the origin of a certain English gesture.
The reason for the gesture was that when archers were caught, those fingers were cut off. It was proof you could still fire an arrow.
All story and artwork (c)2007 Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres
I have posted my favorite pages, but to remain under the limit they're not consecutive mostly. Afraid you'll just have to read the whole thing after this, and it's still in print so do that.
A few words about arrowheads. And the Welsh.
And because the French would not allow commoners in the army and got unprepared mercenaries instead, and because the English had an army of trained commoner longbowmen, this happened. After the battle, we tie off loose ends, and learn the origin of a certain English gesture.
The reason for the gesture was that when archers were caught, those fingers were cut off. It was proof you could still fire an arrow.
All story and artwork (c)2007 Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres
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1. The French ULTIMATELY WON THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR. That's why England is an island nation. Notice that Crecy and Agincourt are fought...in FRANCE. Because the Plantangenets believed themselves kings of England AND France.
2. Despite Shakespeare's poetic license, Agincourt was NOT a complete rout. It was a risky battle for both sides. Had the French attacked when Henry moved his archers forward and before they dug in a second time, we might not be talking about it today. In both cases, the battle was not so much won by the English as lost by the French nobles who refused to follow orders of their experienced soldiers or their king..because they were over-confident. Crecy was a battle that changed how wars were fought...Agincourt was a testament to stupidity that has more cache due to its prominence in a famous play.
The Black Prince took the king's helmet of ostrich feathers as his crest (as the prince of Wales) as an honor to his bravery, as it's said that the near-blind King John inflicted several of the few casualties the English experienced that day. (It's also worth noting that he wasn't called 'the black prince' during his lifetime).
History more often proves that a good story is more popular than the truth, that I'll grant you.
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"It is now a famous symbol throughout England and Wales, being the crest of the Surrey Cricket Club and of course the Welsh Rugby Union."