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Armour and Art

Armour and Art. Jan Van Eyck Brugge Madonna Child canon VanderPaele.

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Armour and Art

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  1. Armour and Art Jan Van Eyck Brugge Madonna Child canon VanderPaele

  2. The Battle of Agincourt was a major English victory against a larger French army in the Hundred Years' War. The battle occurred on Friday 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day), in northern France.Henry V's victory, which brought France to her knees, started a new period in the war, in which Henry married the French king's daughter and his son was made heir to the throne of France, but his achievement was squandered by his heirs, notably Henry VI.While Henry V led his troops into battle and actually participated in hand to hand fighting, the French king of the time, Charles VI, did not command the French army himself as he suffered from severe, repeating illnesses and moderate mental incapacitation. Instead the French were commanded by ConstableCharles d'Albret and various prominent French noblemen of the Armagnac party.The battle is notable for the use of the English longbow, which Henry used in very large numbers, with English and Welsh longbow men forming the vast majority of his army. The battle is also the centrepiece of the play Henry V, by William Shakespeare.

  3. 25 October (Saint Crispin's Day) 1415,Agincourt, France, Decisive English Victory

  4. Longbowmen executing Saint Sebastian. German painting from ca. 1493

  5. Self-yew English longbow, 6 ft 6 in (2 m) long, 470,draw force.

  6. Period illustration of the Battle of Crécy. Anglo-Welsh longbowmen figure prominently in the foreground on the right, where they are driving away Italian mercenarycrossbowmen.

  7. Battle of Zama • The Battle of Zama, fought around October 19, 202 BC, marked the final and decisive end of the Second Punic War. A Roman army led by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus defeated a Carthaginian force led by the legendary commander Hannibal. Soon after this defeat on their home ground, the Carthaginian senate sued for peace, which was given to them by Roman Republic on rather humiliating terms, ending the 17-year war.

  8. The Battle of Zama by Henri-Paul Motte, 1890

  9. Meeting of Hannibal and Scipio at Zama by Charlotte Mary Yonge, 1880

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