If You Are a Psychotic Virgin, the French Army Needs YOU!
Posted in General, On This Day on October 25th, 2006 by Eugene Finerman – Be the first to commentOn this day in 1415, a beleaguered CEO offered these team-building thoughts to his “stakeholders”:
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother …
Stirred by such speech, you too might well overlook the fact that your newfound brother makes 300 times more than you, and that he is the buffoon who put you in such a desperate plight.
In fact, the battle of Agincourt was decided by French incompetence, not English poetry. Outnumbering the English by approximately five-to-one, the French could have used any number of tactics to win the campaign: flanking, envelopment, siege….There was only one possible way that the French could have lost the battle of Agincourt. That would be a full-frontal cavalry assault in constricted terrain, leading to an impassable traffic jam of horses and easy shooting for English archers.
Of course, who would be that stupid? Oh, oui.