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A Lesson For The Modern World

Monday, January 28, 2019 21:01

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“A Lesson For The Modern World”

by Hardscrabble Farmer

“In the autumn of 1415 the English army under command of Henry V were making their way north towards the English held port of Calais. He had arrived only two months earlier and after a single minor victory the French King ordered his forces to assemble in order to expel Henry and his forces from French soil. Although the actual count of his forces are still in dispute his army numbered less than 9,000 men, over 80% of them serfs, armed only with longbows and a heavy mallets for weapons.

They were not only disadvantaged by their numbers but by a full week of poor weather, dysentery, and steady rain slowed their advance. Just south of the village of Agincourt they found themselves within a mile of the French forces that had blocked their path and forced them to prepare for battle. Most people do not realize that this particular engagement would alter not only the course of the Hundred Years War but the future landscape of armed conflict. The French King had been experiencing a form of mental illness that led him to believe he was made of glass (an occupational hazard of potentates it would seem) and so he was absent from the engagement, hidden in his castle while his army marched on the English invasion force.

To his credit he had arrayed one of the most technologically advanced military forces ever assembled. They outnumbered the English cohorts by as much as 6:1 with nearly 10,000 knights clad in the latest steel armor which the iron tipped arrows of the English could not penetrate. By modern standards this was roughly equivalent to having Taliban go up against the top of the line fighting dogs produced by Boston Robotics. The English forces were clad in their farm wear, only a small number with any kind of armor, on foreign soil with no supply lines, after several days of hard travel in bad weather.

If ever there were a case for despair it was at this place in this time. Unlike the French, the English forces were commanded by their King, a man willing to risk his own life in the thick of the fight. They had found themselves at the bottom of the battlefield in what was a choke point on the landscape, hemmed in on both sides by ditches and mounds and behind that a steadily rising hillside of dense woodlands. The French arrayed their forces at the top of the hill, close to 10,000 armored cavalry to the front, the remainder of their armored infantry immediately behind them, a force that must have appeared awesome to the English serfs who made up the vast majority of the E army.

The battle did not begin until mid-morning when the French, awaiting even larger numbers to reinforce them decided to move their crossbowmen to the rear, anticipating a quick victory. The majority of the front ranks mounted on horseback were made up of French nobility, their heralds fluttering in the French sunshine, confident in their superiority over a force made up of farmers and tradesmen in woolen britches, hardly one of whom owned even a helmet.

In the modern era we have completely forgotten that in the age of chivalry only a knight could fight another knight. The peasants that made up the majority of Henry’s forces were barely noticed by the French lords, these were of no value to them and so they were not taken into account at the onset of battle. Their objective was the capture and ransom of English nobles, a common practice that insured them wealth in the event of a victory.

The battle itself was more of an economic proposition as a martial engagement and the French were already counting their riches as they began to move towards the English line. As I mentioned earlier it had rained for nearly a week straight and the condition of the recently plowed field, especially at the English end, was a thick soup of clay and mud. As they made their way towards the English center the 7,000 long bowmen let loose with up to 10 arrows per man every minute. While it has been subsequently demonstrated it was unlikely that the iron tipped arrows were able to penetrate the state of the art French armor, their horses were unprotected and as that rain of peasant’s arrows fell upon them the attack collapsed and the multitude of French riders found themselves buried in the mud and ooze, unable to rise back up due to the suction of the armor they wore in the saturated earth.

Their horses turned back and crashed through the massed infantry that followed, breaking their ranks and causing even greater losses to their advance. And the arrows continued to rain down upon the fallen. What they also overlooked in their rush to meet the enemy was that the number of men who entered the fray from behind channeled their numbers into an increasingly smaller area, a choke point that began to fill with the dead and the dying. It was said that huge numbers of knights drowned in their own helmets, having never struck a single blow upon their opponents.

What they also failed to not was that the knights who made it to the front, knee deep in mud, clad in 75 pounds of armor and exhausted from the charge were facing not only English armor that had been waiting for them, but thousands of angry serfs who saw an opportunity to strike a blow against their social betters and high status targets. Using heavy mallets used to build their paling defenses they caved in the armor of the downed French aristocracy, crushing them to death in their own armor. At that time it was almost unheard of, the shock of their sudden reversal made doubly humiliating by the fact that it was the simple nobodies, commoners, dirt people who took great pleasure in inflicting maximum casualties on the elites brought low on a field of battle.

The French, unable to process what was happening found themselves fully engaged now on both flanks as well and the battle which had started out on the wrong foot turned into a three hour carnage of slaughter. Henry having already taken as many prisoners as he had men in his own army made the decision to forgo the bounties of ransom and ordered that the prisoners be put to the sword. It has been noted that even his own men were reluctant to follow his orders because of their code of chivalry, so the commoners, the long bowmen making sixpence a day for their service, took to the job with relish.

For three hours, with bodies stacked as high as six feet in the muck they made their way from one end of the battlefield to the other with pointed sticks, dirks, arrows and hammers dispatching every last survivor who could not flee the scene. Final accounts of the dead vary from between 120-450 English to between 4,000 and 10,000 Frenchmen, a huge number of them noblemen, knights, and highly placed officials in the French court.

In modern context it would be hard to imagine such a primitive form of warfare ever taking place again, but that is merely an illusion we hold due to our extensively long history of peacetime in our own country. In purely military terms it resembles our current policies and practices. We have an arrogance that has led us to believe that our technological superiority over our opponents can only lead to victory and we find ourselves repeatedly led into warfare by our elites for their economic benefit.

They use the modern serf, known as deplorables, to do the dirty work of killing whoever they choose for whatever their reasons for almost no pay with little or no reward. They see themselves as invulnerable to the little people, they demonstrate their contempt and move through their lives in pomp and luxury assuming that they too understand the ground, know the enemy, are always assured of victory. What they disregard is that no matter how often they have won in the past, all it takes is a small series of misjudgments and hubris to turn their assured victory into a complete and total defeat at the hands of people they never considered to be a threat.

This was a perfect example of 4G warfare against an opponent living in a 3G world. Everyone assume that since the elites that determine the course of history during our lifetimes that they cannot be defeated. Every elite believes that he is vastly superior, not only in title and standing, but in every other way imaginable and that their intellectual capacities can foresee the outcomes of future events right up until that moment when they make a gross underestimation of their foe and launch their own defeat.

At that time there wasn’t any material difference between the French and English elites than there are today among our own. They spoke the same languages, ruled the same lands, swapped the same titles back and forth, amassed fortunes with which they waged even more wars for greater profit, like a game of Risk. The people who did the tasks required of an economically stratified system in order that it function properly were always ignored until their mass was required, and then they were seduced, by monetary reward and a deeply ingrained sense of obligation, to do the dirty work of killing and dying.

Our political class lives so far above us that they too have lost an understanding of the ground and the conditions, the resolve of their opponents, and their dependence on technologies that may not only fail at a critical moment, but serve as their own greatest enemy. The globalist leaders of their time, with all the advantages of superior weaponry and tactics brought down by the dirt people, clubbed to death with wooden mallets in the muck.

And so we all continue to pretend that what has always happened, for as long as there have been social orders and men willing to exploit them to their own advantage, will not happen this time. This time it’s different; this time they are smarter, control more power, have superior technology, are that much more assured of even greater conquests than ever before. Still history allows us to see for ourselves that only the names change, not the behavior or the inevitable outcomes of all men who have ever been. And for those of us who have never aspired to power, never desired fortunes at the expense of the impoverished, there is the memory of the mud of Agincourt and what fell there six centuries ago.”

- https://www.theburningplatform.com/

Source: http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-lesson-for-modern-world.html

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