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![]() The English army drawn up behind a fortuitously located ditch. The French in the foreground are prudently out of range of the English long bows. |
Formigny, 1450
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![]() The knights of the French left ponder how to carry the ditch. |
![]() The initial French position. The two cannons in the center would play a decisive role. |
![]() Dave prepares to unleash a storm of arrows against the first French probe towards his left flank. |
![]() Tiring of the steady stream of cannon balls from the new-fangled French artillery, the English advance across the ditch to try and bring the guns into bow range. |
![]() An isolated longbow unit about to get trampled into the grass. |
![]() General advance by the English. |
![]() Breton knights under Arther de Clermont, riding to the sound of the guns appear in the English rear and head for a ford across the stream. |
![]() The English line has turned through almost ninety degrees but four hundred French knights manage to crash into it just as Clermont's reinforcements bear down on the weary enemy's flank. |