Each archer stood behind a pointed wooden stake, driven at an angle into the earth, part of the burden they’d humped to battle. A spiked hedge was their only defence against the horses. Those archers ...

The Royal Navy has been accused of renaming new attack submarine HMS Agincourt to avoid upsetting ... the sixth vessel to be named after the 1415 battle, where Henry V routed the forces of France ...

Agincourt refers to a battle England won against France in 1415, as part of the Hundred Years' War. The move was also called "woke" and "pathetic" by another former Tory defence minister ...