The Rod Martin Report - Special Edition: The 600th Anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt
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by Rod D. Martin
October 25, 2015
Dear Friends,
It is not just every day you get to celebrate the 600th anniversary of anything.
Agincourt was a particularly defining moment for the English-speaking peoples, in every way but not least our faith. I've penned a few thoughts on the battle, on King Henry, and on what might have been, had he lived. I hope you'll take a minute to read them, and honor these great men who helped shape our world and who we are.
Rod
Six Centuries From Agincourt
By Rod D. Martin
Today in 1415 on this, St. Crispin’s Day, King Henry V triumphed at Agincourt. The battle is one of the defining moments in the history of the English-speaking peoples. It is a victory like unto Marathon or Arbela; or for Christians, and certainly for the devout King Henry, a postcanonical deliverance comparable to the victory of Gideon, or to the parting of the Red Sea.
Historians speak of the First British Empire, which began in Jamestown and ended at Yorktown, and of the Second British Empire, of which India became the keystone and which died very quickly once its heart was removed.
But eight decades before Columbus and... Read more
