Agincourt - Michael Cox

October 1415What I saw when we looked down into that valley made my stomach churn,my heart pound and my legs feel like they were made from bowstrings.There below us, about half a mile away, for almost asfar as I could see in all directions, was a vast sea of grey steel.Moving before us was the most enormous host of men I had everlaid eyes on in my life. As their pennants fluttered in the breeezeand their countless lances bobbed up and down, thousands andthousands of French knights on horseback were now taking up theirpositions in the valley.....