Harfleur

Even in Normandy the word fleot has been corrupted, for the town now called Harfleur was formerly correctly designated "Havoflete."

The Bishop's Secret Fergus Hume 1895

He set sail from Harfleur with money borrowed from Charles V. Owain first attacked the island of Guernsey, and was still there when a message arrived from Charles ordering him to abandon the expedition in order to go to Castile to seek ships to attack La Rochelle.

Kings and Princes 2009

He set sail from Harfleur with money borrowed from Charles V. Owain first attacked the island of Guernsey, and was still there when a message arrived from Charles ordering him to abandon the expedition in order to go to Castile to seek ships to attack La Rochelle.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

The fifteen ships set sail from Harfleur, financed by the French for the destruction of England, loaded with the worst men in Europe, drilled by Swiss instructors into some semblance of an army, commanded by Jasper, and led by Henry, more frightened than he has ever been before in his life.

The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010

Between the two encounters Mr. Cornwell paints a vivid, harrowing portrait of the ordeal of medieval warfare, with trebuchets, catapults, primitive cannon, vats of boiling oil and crossbow bolts -- even the claustrophobic hell of an underground clash as two tunneling armies collide under the walls of Harfleur.

Victory by Longbow Ronald F. Maxwell 2009

A few months later Hook, by now something of a veteran, finds himself in the mighty fleet of 1,500 vessels carrying King Henry and his invading army to Harfleur, where they begin a siege of the walled city.

Victory by Longbow Ronald F. Maxwell 2009

He took part in the sieges of Harfleur and Pontoise, and in the battle of Tartas.

Archive 2008-03-02 de Brantigny........................ 2008

He took part in the sieges of Harfleur and Pontoise, and in the battle of Tartas.

Étienne de Vignolles, Companion of the Maid de Brantigny........................ 2008

He defended Harfleur against Henry V., in 1415, and was a prisoner for ten years, being one of those specially named by Henry in his dying commands to Bedford as prisoners "to be kept."

Archive 2008-02-24 de Brantigny........................ 2008

This compares to the total force of 12000 who travelled to France with Henry, although some 3000 were lost during the preceding siege of Harfleur, and through dysentery.

Archive 2008-10-01 FIDO The Dog 2008