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celebrate the gigantic victory of Agincourt, then and still the most colossal in England���s history. From that day to this there has been nothing that even approached it but Plassey. It was the third and greatest in the series of monster victories won by the English over the French in the hundred years war���Crecy, Poitiers, Agincourt. At Agincourt, according to history, 15,000 English under Henry V., defeated and routed an army of 100,000 French. Sometimes history makes it 8,000 English and 60,000 French, but no matter, in both cases the proportions are preserved. Eight thousand of the French nobility were slain and the rest of the order taken prisoner���1,500 in number, among them the Dukes of Orleans and Bourbon and Marshall Bouccicault, and the victory left the whole northern half of France an English possession. This wholesale depletion of the aristocracy made such a stringent scarcity in its ranks that when the young peasant girl, Joan of Arc, came to undo Henry���s mighty work, fourteen years later, she could hardly gather together nobles enough to man her staff. The battle of Agincourt was fought on October 25th, and a few days later the tremendous news was percolating through England. Presently it was sweeping the country like a tidal wave���like a cyclone���like a conflagration. Choose your own figure. There is no metaphor known to the language that can exaggerate the tempest of joy and pride and exultation that burst everywhere along the progress of that great news. HYLAND 7