New Battle of Agincourt as British and French join forces to defend field from wind farm project

July 14, 2020 / By mobanmarket

A new Battle of Agincourt has erupted over plans to build a wind farm within full view of the site of Henry V’s 1415 victory in northern France.

The battlefield,  immortalised by Shakespeare and which has left an indelible mark on the British psyche, has remained untouched for more than 600 years, but preparations are now under way to erect 16 wind turbines beside it.

Several towering 500ft structures could stand as close as 800 yards from the site of one of England’s greatest military triumphs.

It was on this muddy field that King Henry’s “happy few”, his “band of brothers”, overcame apparently insuperable odds to massacre a vast army of French nobles on St Crispin’s Day, October 25, 1415.

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