A northern French village near the battlefield of Henry V's famous victory.
Agincourt (Azincourt) in northern France was the site of the Battle of Agincourt on 25 October 1415, where Henry V of England defeated a much larger French force commanded by Charles d'Albret during the Hundred Years' War.
The battle became one of the defining military events of the fifteenth century and shaped English memory of the war.
Henry V's army was exhausted, depleted by dysentery, and outnumbered when the battle began. The French cavalry advance across muddy terrain into concentrated English archery created catastrophic losses among the French nobility. Thousands of French prisoners were killed during the battle.
The French dead included Charles d'Albret and many of France's leading nobles. Henry's victory led to the Treaty of Troyes in 1420, which recognized him as heir to the French throne, though the agreement collapsed after his death in 1422.