A new Netflix film depicting the Battle of Agincourt has caused consternation across the Channel, amid claims that it is historically inaccurate and “anti-French”. The Shakesperian telling of ...
The decision to rename the Royal Navy’s HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles has sparked considerable debate, and rightly so. It feels like an unnecessary act of self-censorship, bending over backwards to ...
and unite the French and English monarchies. Keegan sums up the Battle of Agincourt as “a victory of the weak over the strong, of the common soldier over the mounted knight, of resolution over ...
GB News host Martin Daubney has launched a scathing attack on the decision to rename HMS Agincourt, claiming the move ...
The name was changed to HMS Achilles reportedly over concerns that the original may have offended the French.
Grant Shapps, a former Conservative member of the U.K.’s Parliament and defense secretary, called a recent submarine name ...
The Astute-class attack submarine, which is still being built, was to be named in honour of King Henry V's famous victory at Agincourt over the French in 1415. But the boat will now be called HMS ...
Royal Navy chiefs have come under fire for dropping plans to name a new attack submarine after a battle in which England ...
But Top Brass reheated their plan and have settled on Achilles because they do not want to remind the French of their defeat ... “Renaming the Agincourt is nothing short of sacrilege.
The longbow was incredibly powerful and could sometimes kill armoured knights and their ... to cause major damage to the French. The English victory at Agincourt against a numerically superior ...
AN EX-Nato commander has blasted woke Navy chiefs for renaming a submarine to avoid upsetting the French. HMS Agincourt is the fleet’s sixth vessel and was named after the 1415 victory by ...