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Harfleur, Siege of (1415)
 
War:   Hundred Years War
 
Date(s):   Aug 1415 - Sep 1415
 
Location:   France
 
Outcome:   English victory
 
Principal   Commanders:   English: Henry V, King of England
 
Description:   Henry V landed in France with about 10,000 men in the summer of 1415. His first objective was Harfleur, a port town on northwestern France. The siege lasted for about a month and Henry marched into the town victorius but with his army severly depleted mainly from illness. His next stop was to be Calais but he was intercepted at Agincourt.


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