{"id":2776,"date":"2025-10-13T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-battle-of-agincourt\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:03:10","slug":"the-battle-of-agincourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-battle-of-agincourt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Agincourt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Battle of Agincourt<br>\nHenry V had<br>\n6,000 to 8,000 men<br>\nCharles d\u2019Abret<br>\n15,000 to 16,000<br>\nEnglish longbow archers<br>\nSaved the Day<br>\nDespite the overwhelming<br>\nThree to one odds<br>\nThousands of arrows<br>\nThat darkened the sky<br>\nEvened the odds<br>\nAwarded the English<br>\nThe impressive win<br>\n5,000 plus French dead<br>\nOnly 600 English Dead<br>\nWhat a terrible price<br>\nFor all who died<br>\nWhat a horrible waste<br>\nOf so many human lives<br>\nThough it was glorious<br>\nA win against great odds<br>\nIt\u2019s a reminder of ravages<br>\nOf the cost of wars<br>\nThe untold numbers<br>\nOf dead human lives<br>\nIf only our species<br>\nDidn\u2019t have to have wars<br>\nFrom its ancient origins<br>\nTo the wars today.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Battle of Agincourt Henry V had 6,000 to 8,000 men Charles d\u2019Abret 15,000 to 16,000 English longbow archers Saved the Day Despite the overwhelming Three to one odds Thousands of arrows That darkened the sky Evened the odds Awarded the English The impressive win 5,000 plus French dead Only 600 English Dead What a&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-battle-of-agincourt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}