Ahhh the Battle of Agincourt a bloody day Sir won I must say by the longbow of the English. The French nobility suffered badly for it.

Actually, although the English longbows were a key weapon, the weather and King Harry's superior tactics are what carried the day. It had been raining for days so the field was a sodden mess and completely unsuitable for cavalry charges. Harry dismounted his knights and armored men at arms to meet the French attack, but the French nobles refused to dismount and proceeded to charge across the muddy field. The result was that their "charge" had no momentum and the French were easy targets for the dismounted English. The armored men at arms knocked the French off their horses and the archers and unarmored yeomen finished them off, stabbing them through their visors, armor joints, etc.

When the first wave began to get massacred, instead of sending infantry and/or dismounted knights, a second wave of mounted knights blundered in making matters worse. The first wave couldn't retreat because the 2nd wave hemmed them in, but the 2nd wave couldn't do anything useful because the first wave was between them and the English. When the first wave finally routed, they rode through the 2nd wave, disordering it and spreading panic. The knights which didn't rout were then methodically slaughtered in turn by the English.

Paco