Great Commanders

[Kingmaker]

HiHi

Mmmm, my personal opinon Glyn, but I think in some ways Henry V reputation was more the product of what we would now call Media spin, something the house of Lancaster was allways very adept at.

For all the glory of St Crispins day at Agincourt surely the fact still remains that it was bad generalship that got the English army in the mess where it was win or be anihalated, fair enough his battlefield tactics were excellent but ... ?

As to his other 2 campaigns both were (if my memory serves me well)little more than siege opperations, OK he recaptured Normandy and got to the gates of Paris but I don't think he ever faced a French army in the field again (I may be wrong though), suffise to say that in my opinion the really outstanding commander in that period was Henrys brother Bedford, but thats merely my opinion.

Quite agree though that if he had of lived longer and taken the French throne France would have remained English, ... another lot that missed out on the joys of Cricket through going their own way :)

All the Best
Peter