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Thank you We sneak in henry the fifth or henry

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v If you're type i'll uh shmoop you probably watch

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the basketball game before there are the players There are

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the raps with zebra guys here and then there are

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the two lunatics on the sideline yelling at the players

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and crowing clipboard chairs and going red in the face

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Those would be the coaches screaming at your team is

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a time honored coaching tradition Do you ever not all

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leaders off to use loud verbal harassment as motivation and

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shakespeare's henry the fifth the title character rallies his men

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to victory at the battle of agincourt by speaking to

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them not as his subjects but as his band of

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brothers First a little background when the english and the

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french faced off agincourt thie english weren't supposed to win

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Sure we make lots and jokes today about the french

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and their military victories But during the fifteenth century they

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were a force to be reckoned with Oh at agincourt

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the french army was big and well supplied and the

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french soldiers were very very good at killing people And

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launching farm animals at annapolis members of king arthur's round

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table As for king henry the fist troops well the

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magic hate ball said they were toast No however history

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tells us that the english didn't lose Why Well chester

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play the english perk up and go out fighting after

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a speech henry gives prior to the battle Testing testing

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one two three lines of dialogue Henry speaks before zhang

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for are known as the st crispin's day speech because

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the battle took place on october twenty fifth day dedicated

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to the shoe making martyrs in christmas In the speech

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henry doesn't tell his men that they're amazing Soldiers do

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that They have the advantage on the battlefield Definitely not

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that there was no doubt they're goingto win at agincourt

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Not gonna have to those words those lives wouldn't work

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Instead henry called his troops his band of brothers and

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said he was honored to fight with them He acknowledged

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that some english soldiers were going to die in the

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battle and that others would be wounded However in the

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end henry promises soldiers present at agincourt would be remembered

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for their valor and that other men would envy them

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Their glory You get some glory and you get some

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jewelry everybody gets glory they would fight if a king

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talk to us like that maybe and of course is

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in any good story involving an underdog The english wanted

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ads for this was no minor victory either Oh come

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on henry went on to marry the daughter of the

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french king and his son henry the sixth became heir

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to the french throne Hey look i'm in england and

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france at the same time Henry was a king Yes

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i wass he could have spoken to His men is

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their ruler I rule you drool Becky could have elected

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to not speak to them at all Whoever shakespeare paints

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henry as someone who considered his soldiers to be his

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comrades his friends equal with the st crispin's day speech

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Shakespeare allows us a henry who is an inspired leader

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able to bring men together You accomplish something astonishing Check

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this out Sort of like those italian chefs who all

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got together to make the world's largest pizza So everybody 00:03:47.27 --> [endTime] say cheese Oh hold the anchovies

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