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The French Knights Charged Again and Again, 15 Times in Total
Thousands of french soldiers died in the battle. The english are generally reckoned to have lost fewer than a hundred men. King philip's reputation did not recover. Three years later he was dead. But they should have blamed themselves for the catastrophe. 500 years of success had led them to forget that the chief aim of battle isn't honor, it's victory.