Personal Narrative Essay: The Battle Of Agincourt

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I’m am writing you to know that I am alive. I miss you alot and I haven't seen you in over three months after I went away to my father's house in August. Today was a long and exhausting day, and after the fields of Agincourt were filled with French blood, there are many things I must tell you. These past hours have been the most hectic hours in my life. The Battle of Agincourt we slayed with our six foot tall longbows, the numbers and the armour of the French. Our strategy and tactics at Agincourt will always be a memory and how we came out on top. When we entered Agincourt on October 24 we stood there on the muddy ploughed ground of the fields starring the French in the face that were only a few hundred yards away. Knowing that they blocked …show more content…

My longbow that was gave to my father over fifty years ago has been crucial here in France. My father explained to me that this one and four fifth meters piece of yew wood took many years for him to learn. He said how these weapons can launch deadly arrows over two hundred meters and deliver excruciating pain through enemy’s armour . When my companions and I were in the Forest next to Agincourt we knew that the French were blocking our path to Calais, and the only thing that would help us where our longbows and our tactics that King Henry the fifth had planned for us. Every Sunday you let me go to the Bens farmland where we would practice propelling our home made Bodkin arrows at hay barrels one hundred yards away. This weapon has saved thousands of men's lives today, I can’t explain how difficult it was to fight through this battle firing arrow after arrow and the pain that came after to my shoulder. I have agonizing pain in my right shoulder from pulling one hundred pounds of draw weight when we got the command to “Let loose your strings” it went on and on, until we realized that we had the upper hand, and I knew that this Saint Crispin's day will be

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