Rule, Britannia!

[Megas Methuselah]

A myth. People try to portray Agincourt as some sort of Marxian class struggle where the "proletariat" left victorious. In fact there were as many nobles scattered among the "peasants" as there were proportionally nobles in the French army; it was a common practice.

And the yeoman class was hardly a bunch of peasants with pitchforks. If anything, and by the standards of the Middle Ages, they were rather middle class property owners.

Thanks. Nevertheless, if anything, this myth merely strengthens my point that English longbows may be hyped up because of the well-known story/myth of the French nobility beaten on the field by English commoners.