SubscribeIn February of 1417, King Henry V, of England, was busily preparing for his effort to reclaim the territories of France, to which he was convinced he was entitled. Shakespeare’s play tells us of that effort, to some extent, but he does caution , in his prologue, that the armies of two mighty Monarchies and the “vasty fields of France” can hardly fit into the “wooden ‘O‘” of his theater. …”Into a thousand parts divide one man …Think when we talk of horses , that you see them … for ‘tis your thought that now must deck our kings.” All of which means merely use you imagination. and “Gently to hear, and kindly to judge our play.”
Henry won, of course and the culminating battle was fought at Agincourt, where he was outnumbered five to one, the French mounting 30,000 against 6,000 Englishmen. 5,000 of whom were archers and it was because of the archers and their long-bows that he did so. But were there others with whom the honor and glory of victory should have been shared?
Well, you bet there were. Each of those 5,000 archers carried at least two dozen arrows. Each arrow fletched with three guiding feathers. Early in his planning Henry instructed all of the sheriffs in England to require everyone in their jurisdictions to pluck six wing feathers from every goose and send them on to London, these to be delivered to the fletchers for those arrows. So to insure the victory of the English against formidable odds 60,000 geese lost their flight feathers.
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