Eventually, the already damaged walls are undermined by sappers and a breach appears. English footmen and men at arms pour into the town under Henry’s rallying cry:
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean."
(Henry V Act III, Scene 1)
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Although the Shakespeare was the main inspiration for this moc, it's unlikely that such an assault occured in reality! A parley was requested after French reinforcements failed to arrive and the English force occupied the town after a month long siege.
However, I like the crooked white Fachwerk house just as much.
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