tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083855923964640893.post8036772144745863358..comments2023-11-05T10:53:07.638+00:00Comments on Patently Rubbish: Bad losers....patentlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00602962323262055007noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083855923964640893.post-4730377311917833922008-10-27T17:58:00.000+00:002008-10-27T17:58:00.000+00:00Yet when the frenchies won at Patay by not repeate...Yet when the frenchies won at Patay by not repeatedly charging forward across a muddy field under a hail of arrows, that is in no way linked to learning the crushing lessons of Agincourt?<BR/><BR/>Probably the two sides were more even in numbers than the English had claimed, but so what?<BR/>We like to be seen as outnumbered. It suits us.<BR/>So what if in the Battle of Britain the numbers were a lot more even than we allow for. { We always count Nazi bombers and fighters against just our fighters}.<BR/>It doesn't matter.. we still won. <BR/>The French always claim they were defeated by superior Nazi numbers in WW2. But we know they faced fewer troops, fewer planes, and more but lesser quality AFV's.<BR/>They still lost.<BR/><BR/>So at Agincourt even if numbers of troops are more even its Heavy Cavalry that counts. As the Tank of the battlefield at Agincourt it should have been a war winner.<BR/>English archers mashed up the frog heavy horse by using better tactics and training. <BR/>The French should have won..They expected to win..They prepared for the win.. And they lost! And have never quite got over it.Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.com