Agincourt Places


Learn about places associated with the Battle of Agincourt.

 

A few articles to whet your appetite:

New Romney and the Cinque Ports

By Dan Spencer In 1415 the federation of the Cinque Ports were called upon to supply ships for Henry V’s expedition to France. This was a confederation of ports in East Sussex and Kent, which since the twelfth century had been granted special privileges in return for supplying fifty-seven ships each year for fifteenth days at their own expense. In 1415 some indication of this can be seen in the records for the formerly coastal town of New Romney (now over a mile from the sea due to silting!). This...
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