800 English long bowmen vs 4000 French knights should not have been a major battle but the terrain savvy English commander chose to pick an open horseshoe shaped swampy depression on the edge of a forest with a slight hill behind it. just before the battle the skies opened up and torrential rain fell but the French King recklessly ordered the attack to go forward regardless. 3500 brave but foolish French nobility perished and almost all the remainder were captured after becoming literally trapped by their own suits of armor...