This e-book is an extract from Encounters that Changed the World and is also available as part of that complete publication.
The final phase of the Hundred Years' War between England and France coincided with the reign of England's most charismatic king – Henry V. Within that final phase came the most famous battle of the war, the Battle of Agincourt. For the English the confrontation between the two armies in this single battle came to symbolize everything it means to be English. Read about the Battle of Agincourt along with other significant hostile encounters that changed the world.
Contents: Caesar and Brutus, King Harold and William the Conqueror, Thomas Becket and the Four Knights, Edward I and John Balliol, The English and French Armies at Agincourt, Henry Tudor and Richard III, Gilbert Gifford and Mary Queen of Scots, The English Fleet and the Spanish Armada, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, George Washington and Lord Cornwallis, Napoleon and Tsar Alexander, Rudyard Kipling, Beatty Balestier and the Reporter