A previous attempt to rename HMS Agincourt was blocked by then defence ... Six ships have previously borne the name, earning six battle honours, including the River Plate and Okinawa.' ...

It was a spectacular win for the young English King Henry V on St. Crispin’s Day 1415. And everybody loves to see a win for the underdog, a victory for the common soldier over the well-armed knight.

Each archer stood behind a pointed wooden stake, driven at an angle into the earth, part of the burden they’d humped to battle. A spiked hedge was their only defence against the horses. Those archers ...

Achilles received battle honours during the Second World ... build a seventh Astute-class hunter-killer submarine called HMS Agincourt. That would have made it the sixth Royal Navy vessel to ...

The battle was a disaster for the French ... The English victory at Agincourt against a numerically superior French army was a significant turning point in the Hundred Years’ War; the French ...

HMS Agincourt is now set to be rebranded ‘HMS Achilles’ after Keir Starmer feared offending the French by reminding them of the famous Henry V battle victory. Those involved in the woke re ...