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They were outnumbered six to one. 🏴🇫🇷
Starving. Sick. Exhausted.
The French looked across the field and laughed.
They weren't even soldiers. They were farmers.
But those farmers had something nobody else in the world had.
The Welsh longbow.
A weapon so powerful nobody else knew how to make it. So demanding it took a lifetime to learn. So devastating that what happened next changed Europe forever.
The French had the greatest army on the continent. The finest nobility in France. They were so confident they argued over who would capture the English king.
Then the arrows fell.
Twelve per minute. Per archer.
Thousands of arrows. The sky went dark.
The French charged. Into mud.
Arrows punched through plate armour. Horses screamed. Knights fell face-down in the mire and couldn't stand up.
The archers dropped their bows.
Drew swords and mallets.
And went to work.
Three dukes. Dead.
Ninety counts. Dead.
Over 1,500 knights. Dead.
English dead? A few hundred.
The greatest army in Europe. Destroyed by farmers with bows.
25th October 1415.
That's not just a battle. Our history.
Plenty more available at proudofus.co.uk
Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
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🇬🇧 For 300 years, North African pirates enslaved over a million Europeans. 🇬🇧
Spain. Italy. France. Ireland. Even Iceland.
Entire villages taken.
Europe paid ransoms. Begged. No one could stop it.
Then Britain sailed into Algiers harbour. 50,000 cannonballs. 9 hours.
Every slave walked free. Not just British. All of them.
300 years of terror. Ended in a single day.
Be proud of us. 🇬🇧
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