🏹 Figure It Out: The Mud, The Arrows and The Will…Agincourt, 1415

On October 25, 1415 a soaked, starving and outnumbered English army faced annihilation at Agincourt.

King Henry V led just 6,000 to 9,000 weary soldiers. Across the muddy field stood a French army three times their size…heavily armored, confident and ready to crush the invaders.

But Henry had something the French didn’t: clarity under pressure.

He saw the terrain for what it was…a weapon. He placed his men-at-arms in the center, flanked by longbowmen who drove sharpened stakes into the ground. When the French knights charged, their heavy horses sank into the mud.

Then came the storm.

A wall of English arrows sliced through the rain and the armor…thousands fell before ever reaching the front line.

By the end, 6,000 to 10,000 French lay dead. The English lost only a few hundred. Henry’s leadership didn’t just win a battle…it rewrote destiny. The victory made him heir to the French throne and a legend immortalized in Shakespeare’s Henry V.

Lesson: You don’t need ideal conditions. You need to see the battlefield for what it is and use it. The ones who win aren’t always the strongest…they’re the ones who FIGURE IT OUT.