They protected Henry the Fifth from death, at agincourt, and received that death themselves.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
197, 198, 209, 219 agincourt, battle of, iii.
"History of the English People, Index"
John Richard Green
A curious feature of his speech was that in which he warned the latter power that, in the event of a conflict, it would have to do with a branch of the same race which, "from the days of agincourt and Crecy, of Blenheim and Ramillies, down to the days of Salamanca and Waterloo, has always known perfectly well how to deal with the impetuous and fiery courage of the French."
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt